elpa-pkg-info software package provides provide information about Emacs packages, 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 elpa-pkg-info
elpa-pkg-info is installed in your system.
Make ensure the elpa-pkg-info package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep elpa-pkg-info *
You will get with elpa-pkg-info package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Lisp |
| Package | elpa-pkg-info |
| Version | 0.6-1 |
| Description | provide information about Emacs packages |
| Sub Section | lisp |