elpa-expand-region software package provides Increase selected region in Emacs by semantic units, 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 elpa-expand-region
elpa-expand-region is installed in your system.
Make ensure the elpa-expand-region package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep elpa-expand-region *
You will get with elpa-expand-region package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Editors |
| Package | elpa-expand-region |
| Version | 0.10.0-8 |
| Description | Increase selected region in Emacs by semantic units |
| Sub Section | Editors |