dfu-programmer software package provides device firmware update (DFU) based USB programmer for Atmel chips, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install dfu-programmer
dfu-programmer is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dfu-programmer package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dfu-programmer *
You will get with dfu-programmer package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Development |
| Package | dfu-programmer |
| Version | 0.6.1-1 |
| Description | device firmware update (DFU) based USB programmer for Atmel chips |
| Sub Section | Devel |