ecasound-el software package provides multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (emacs), 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 ecasound-el
ecasound-el is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ecasound-el package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ecasound-el *
You will get with ecasound-el package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Sound |
| Package | ecasound-el |
| Version | 2.9.1-7build1 |
| Description | multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect processor (emacs) |
| Sub Section | Sound |