ffmpeg-dbg software package provides Debug symbols for the FFmpeg multimedia framework, 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 ffmpeg-dbg
ffmpeg-dbg is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ffmpeg-dbg package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ffmpeg-dbg *
You will get with ffmpeg-dbg package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Debug packages |
| Package | ffmpeg-dbg |
| Version | 7:2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 [amd6 |
| Description | Debug symbols for the FFmpeg multimedia framework |
| Sub Section | debug |