dict-wn software package provides electronic lexical database of English language for dict, 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 dict-wn
dict-wn is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dict-wn package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dict-wn *
You will get with dict-wn package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | dict-wn |
| Version | 1:3.0-33 |
| Description | electronic lexical database of English language for dict |
| Sub Section | text |