erlang-dbg software package provides Erlang/OTP symbol files, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install erlang-dbg
erlang-dbg is installed in your system.
Make ensure the erlang-dbg package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep erlang-dbg *
You will get with erlang-dbg package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Debug packages |
| Package | erlang-dbg |
| Version | 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3 |
| Description | Erlang/OTP symbol files |
| Sub Section | debug |