ekg2-ui-ncurses software package provides instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - ncurses interface, 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 ekg2-ui-ncurses
ekg2-ui-ncurses is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ekg2-ui-ncurses package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ekg2-ui-ncurses *
You will get with ekg2-ui-ncurses package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Network |
| Package | ekg2-ui-ncurses |
| Version | 1:0.4~pre+20120506.1-12 |
| Description | instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems - ncurses interface |
| Sub Section | Net |