diction software package provides Utilities to help with style and diction (English and German), 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 diction
diction is installed in your system.
Make ensure the diction package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep diction *
You will get with diction package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | diction |
| Version | 1.11-1 |
| Description | Utilities to help with style and diction (English and German) |
| Sub Section | text |