erlang-yaws software package provides Erlang application which implements HTTP webserver, 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 erlang-yaws
erlang-yaws is installed in your system.
Make ensure the erlang-yaws package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep erlang-yaws *
You will get with erlang-yaws package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Web Servers |
| Package | erlang-yaws |
| Version | 2.0.2-1 |
| Description | Erlang application which implements HTTP webserver |
| Sub Section | HTTPD |