hiera software package provides Light weight hierarchical data store, 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 hiera
hiera is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hiera package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hiera *
You will get with hiera package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Ruby |
| Package | hiera |
| Version | 2.0.0-2 |
| Description | Light weight hierarchical data store |
| Sub Section | Ruby |