dircproxy software package provides IRC proxy for people who use IRC from different workstations, 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 dircproxy
dircproxy is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dircproxy package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dircproxy *
You will get with dircproxy package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Network |
| Package | dircproxy |
| Version | 1.0.5-5.2ubuntu1 |
| Description | IRC proxy for people who use IRC from different workstations |
| Sub Section | Net |