diet-agent software package provides DIET grid middleware - agent, 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 diet-agent
diet-agent is installed in your system.
Make ensure the diet-agent package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep diet-agent *
You will get with diet-agent package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Science |
| Package | diet-agent |
| Version | 2.8.0-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | DIET grid middleware - agent |
| Sub Section | Science |