libjpeg-dev software package provides Independent JPEG Groups JPEG runtime library (dependency package), 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 libjpeg-dev
libjpeg-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libjpeg-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libjpeg-dev *
You will get with libjpeg-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libjpeg-dev |
| Version | 8c-2ubuntu8 |
| Description | Independent JPEG Groups JPEG runtime library (dependency package) |
| Sub Section | Devel |