elpa-helm software package provides Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework, 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-helm
elpa-helm is installed in your system.
Make ensure the elpa-helm package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep elpa-helm *
You will get with elpa-helm package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Lisp |
| Package | elpa-helm |
| Version | 1.9.2-1 |
| Description | Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework |
| Sub Section | Lisp |