libabw-dev software package provides library for reading and writing AbiWord(tm) documents -- development, 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 libabw-dev
libabw-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libabw-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libabw-dev *
You will get with libabw-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libabw-dev |
| Version | 0.1.1-4ubuntu1 |
| Description | library for reading and writing AbiWord(tm) documents -- development |
| Sub Section | libdevel |