elpa-popup software package provides visual popup user interface library for 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 elpa-popup
elpa-popup is installed in your system.
Make ensure the elpa-popup package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep elpa-popup *
You will get with elpa-popup package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Lisp |
| Package | elpa-popup |
| Version | 0.5.3-1 |
| Description | visual popup user interface library for Emacs |
| Sub Section | lisp |