elfutils software package provides collection of utilities to handle ELF objects, 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 elfutils
elfutils is installed in your system.
Make ensure the elfutils package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep elfutils *
You will get with elfutils package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | elfutils |
| Version | 0.166-2ubuntu1 |
| Description | collection of utilities to handle ELF objects |
| Sub Section | Utils |