hyphen-de software package provides German hyphenation patterns, 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 hyphen-de
hyphen-de is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hyphen-de package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hyphen-de *
You will get with hyphen-de package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | hyphen-de |
| Version | 1:5.1.0-1ubuntu2 |
| Description | German hyphenation patterns |
| Sub Section | Text |