A fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 will not work with Yocto. Hence I have made this short guide on setting Ubuntu 16.04 ready to be used with Yocto.
Open a terminal and run the following
sudo apt install wget git-core unzip texinfo gcc-multilib device-tree-compiler build-essential texinfo libncurses5-dev chrpath diffstat gawk python2.7 libsdl1.2-dev xtermsudo
ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/pythonsudo
ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2
Now we will change Ubuntu’s shell from the default dash to bash. Run the following and select no when prompted.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash