gedit-latex-plugin software package provides gedit plugin for composing and compiling LaTeX documents, 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 gedit-latex-plugin
gedit-latex-plugin is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gedit-latex-plugin package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gedit-latex-plugin *
You will get with gedit-latex-plugin package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | gedit-latex-plugin |
| Version | 3.8.0-3build1 |
| Description | gedit plugin for composing and compiling LaTeX documents |
| Sub Section | GNOME |