emboss-lib software package provides EMBOSS Libraries, 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 emboss-lib
emboss-lib is installed in your system.
Make ensure the emboss-lib package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep emboss-lib *
You will get with emboss-lib package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Libraries |
| Package | emboss-lib |
| Version | 6.6.0+dfsg-5 |
| Description | EMBOSS Libraries |
| Sub Section | libs |