ejabberd-mod-rest software package provides HTTP interface to POST arbitrary stanzas to ejabberd, 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 ejabberd-mod-rest
ejabberd-mod-rest is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ejabberd-mod-rest package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ejabberd-mod-rest *
You will get with ejabberd-mod-rest package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Network |
| Package | ejabberd-mod-rest |
| Version | 0.2016.01.12~dfsg0-1 |
| Description | HTTP interface to POST arbitrary stanzas to ejabberd |
| Sub Section | Net |