desktop-file-utils software package provides Utilities for .desktop files, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install desktop-file-utils
desktop-file-utils is installed in your system.
Make ensure the desktop-file-utils package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep desktop-file-utils *
You will get with desktop-file-utils package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | desktop-file-utils |
| Version | 0.22-1ubuntu5 |
| Description | Utilities for .desktop files |
| Sub Section | Devel |