gdal-bin software package provides Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Utility programs, 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 gdal-bin
gdal-bin is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gdal-bin package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gdal-bin *
You will get with gdal-bin package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Science |
| Package | gdal-bin |
| Version | 1.11.3+dfsg-3build2 |
| Description | Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Utility programs |
| Sub Section | Science |