libindicator-dev software package provides panel indicator applet - library development 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 libindicator-dev
libindicator-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libindicator-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libindicator-dev *
You will get with libindicator-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libindicator-dev |
| Version | 12.10.2+16.04.20151208-0ubuntu |
| Description | panel indicator applet - library development files |
| Sub Section | Devel |