libirrlicht1.8 software package provides High performance realtime 3D engine, 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 libirrlicht1.8
libirrlicht1.8 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libirrlicht1.8 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libirrlicht1.8 *
You will get with libirrlicht1.8 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Libraries |
| Package | libirrlicht1.8 |
| Version | 1.8.3+dfsg1-1 |
| Description | High performance realtime 3D engine |
| Sub Section | Libs |