freevo-lirc software package provides home theater framework - LIRC support, 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 freevo-lirc
freevo-lirc is installed in your system.
Make ensure the freevo-lirc package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep freevo-lirc *
You will get with freevo-lirc package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Graphics |
| Package | freevo-lirc |
| Version | 1.9.2b2-4.2 |
| Description | home theater framework - LIRC support |
| Sub Section | Graphics |