ecaccess software package provides clients to access ECMWF facilities, 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 ecaccess
ecaccess is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ecaccess package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ecaccess *
You will get with ecaccess package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Science |
| Package | ecaccess |
| Version | 4.0.1-1 |
| Description | clients to access ECMWF facilities |
| Sub Section | Science |