empathy-common software package provides GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (common files), 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 empathy-common
empathy-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the empathy-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep empathy-common *
You will get with empathy-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | empathy-common |
| Version | 3.12.12-3ubuntu1 |
| Description | GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (common files) |
| Sub Section | GNOME |