kopete software package provides instant messaging and chat application, 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 kopete
kopete is installed in your system.
Make ensure the kopete package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep kopete *
You will get with kopete package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | KDE |
| Package | kopete |
| Version | 4:16.04.3-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | instant messaging and chat application |
| Sub Section | kde |