gnome-devel software package provides GNOME Desktop Environment -- development 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 gnome-devel
gnome-devel is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gnome-devel package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gnome-devel *
You will get with gnome-devel package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | gnome-devel |
| Version | 1:3.14+3ubuntu1 |
| Description | GNOME Desktop Environment -- development tools |
| Sub Section | Devel |