docutils-common software package provides text processing system for reStructuredText - common data, 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 docutils-common
docutils-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the docutils-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep docutils-common *
You will get with docutils-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Python |
| Package | docutils-common |
| Version | 0.12+dfsg-1 |
| Description | text processing system for reStructuredText - common data |
| Sub Section | Python |