gpsmanshp software package provides Tcl interface to shapelib, 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 gpsmanshp
gpsmanshp is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gpsmanshp package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gpsmanshp *
You will get with gpsmanshp package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Interpreters |
| Package | gpsmanshp |
| Version | 1.2.3-4ubuntu2 |
| Description | Tcl interface to shapelib |
| Sub Section | Interpreters |