devscripts-el software package provides Emacs wrappers for the commands in devscripts, 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 devscripts-el
devscripts-el is installed in your system.
Make ensure the devscripts-el package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep devscripts-el *
You will get with devscripts-el package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Editors |
| Package | devscripts-el |
| Version | 35.12ubuntu2 |
| Description | Emacs wrappers for the commands in devscripts |
| Sub Section | Editors |