discover software package provides hardware identification system, 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 discover
discover is installed in your system.
Make ensure the discover package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep discover *
You will get with discover package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | discover |
| Version | 2.1.2-7ubuntu1 |
| Description | hardware identification system |
| Sub Section | admin |