grc software package provides generic colouriser for everything, 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 grc
grc is installed in your system.
Make ensure the grc package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep grc *
You will get with grc package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | grc |
| Version | 1.9-1 |
| Description | generic colouriser for everything |
| Sub Section | Text |