libev4 software package provides high-performance event loop library modelled after libevent, 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 libev4
libev4 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libev4 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libev4 *
You will get with libev4 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Libraries |
| Package | libev4 |
| Version | 1:4.22-1 |
| Description | high-performance event loop library modelled after libevent |
| Sub Section | libs |