highlight-common software package provides source code to formatted text converter (architecture independent files), 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 highlight-common
highlight-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the highlight-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep highlight-common *
You will get with highlight-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | highlight-common |
| Version | 3.18-3build1 |
| Description | source code to formatted text converter (architecture independent files) |
| Sub Section | Devel |