gobject-introspection software package provides Generate interface introspection data for GObject libraries, 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 gobject-introspection
gobject-introspection is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gobject-introspection package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gobject-introspection *
You will get with gobject-introspection package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | gobject-introspection |
| Version | 1.46.0-3ubuntu1 |
| Description | Generate interface introspection data for GObject libraries |
| Sub Section | Devel |