dav-text software package provides minimalist ncurses-based text editor, 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 dav-text
dav-text is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dav-text package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dav-text *
You will get with dav-text package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | dav-text |
| Version | 0.8.5-6ubuntu1 |
| Description | minimalist ncurses-based text editor |
| Sub Section | text |