gedit-common software package provides official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment (support files), 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 gedit-common
gedit-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gedit-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gedit-common *
You will get with gedit-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | gedit-common |
| Version | 3.18.3-0ubuntu4 |
| Description | official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment (support files) |
| Sub Section | GNOME |