disktype software package provides detection of content format of a disk or disk image, 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 disktype
disktype is installed in your system.
Make ensure the disktype package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep disktype *
You will get with disktype package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | disktype |
| Version | 09-05-2016 |
| Description | detection of content format of a disk or disk image |
| Sub Section | Utils |