evolver software package provides Surface Evolver, 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 evolver
evolver is installed in your system.
Make ensure the evolver package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep evolver *
You will get with evolver package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Mathematics |
| Package | evolver |
| Version | 2.30c.dfsg-3 |
| Description | Surface Evolver |
| Sub Section | Math |