hyphen-ta software package provides Tamil hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice, 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-ta
hyphen-ta is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hyphen-ta package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hyphen-ta *
You will get with hyphen-ta package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | hyphen-ta |
| Version | 0.9.0-1 |
| Description | Tamil hyphenation patterns for LibreOffice |
| Sub Section | Text |