ksshaskpass software package provides interactively prompt users for a passphrase for ssh-add, 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 ksshaskpass
ksshaskpass is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ksshaskpass package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ksshaskpass *
You will get with ksshaskpass package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | ksshaskpass |
| Version | 4:5.7.5-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | interactively prompt users for a passphrase for ssh-add |
| Sub Section | Utils |
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