gdl-mpfit software package provides Robust non-linear least squares curve fitting for GDL, 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 gdl-mpfit
gdl-mpfit is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gdl-mpfit package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gdl-mpfit *
You will get with gdl-mpfit package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Science |
| Package | gdl-mpfit |
| Version | 1.82+2013.08.14-3 |
| Description | Robust non-linear least squares curve fitting for GDL |
| Sub Section | Science |