clipit software package provides lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install clipit
clipit is installed in your system.
Make ensure the clipit package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep clipit *
You will get with clipit package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Miscellaneous |
| Package | clipit |
| Version | 1.4.2-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager |
| Sub Section | misc |