dh-metainit software package provides Debhelper addon to install and register a metainit file, 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 dh-metainit
dh-metainit is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dh-metainit package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dh-metainit *
You will get with dh-metainit package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | dh-metainit |
| Version | 0.0.5 |
| Description | Debhelper addon to install and register a metainit file |
| Sub Section | admin |