hp-ppd software package provides HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) 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 hp-ppd
hp-ppd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hp-ppd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hp-ppd *
You will get with hp-ppd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | hp-ppd |
| Version | 0.9ubuntu2+really-0.2 |
| Description | HP Postscript Printer Definition (PPD) files |
| Sub Section | Utils |