dzen2 software package provides General-purpose messaging and notification program for X11, 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 dzen2
dzen2 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dzen2 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dzen2 *
You will get with dzen2 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | dzen2 |
| Version | 0.9.5~svn271-4 |
| Description | General-purpose messaging and notification program for X11 |
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