gnome-dbg software package provides debugging symbols for the GNOME desktop environment, 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 gnome-dbg
gnome-dbg is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gnome-dbg package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gnome-dbg *
You will get with gnome-dbg package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Debug packages |
| Package | gnome-dbg |
| Version | 1:3.14+3ubuntu1 |
| Description | debugging symbols for the GNOME desktop environment |
| Sub Section | debug |