grass software package provides Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS), 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 grass
grass is installed in your system.
Make ensure the grass package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep grass *
You will get with grass package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Science |
| Package | grass |
| Version | 7.0.3-1build1 |
| Description | Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS) |
| Sub Section | Science |