freeipmi-tools software package provides GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools, 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 freeipmi-tools
freeipmi-tools is installed in your system.
Make ensure the freeipmi-tools package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep freeipmi-tools *
You will get with freeipmi-tools package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | freeipmi-tools |
| Version | 1.4.11-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol - tools |
| Sub Section | admin |