floppyd software package provides Daemon for remote access to floppy drives, 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 floppyd
floppyd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the floppyd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep floppyd *
You will get with floppyd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Other OSs and file systems |
| Package | floppyd |
| Version | 4.0.18-2 |
| Description | Daemon for remote access to floppy drives |
| Sub Section | otherosfs |