libgetdns-dbg software package provides modern asynchronous DNS API (debug symbols), 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 libgetdns-dbg
libgetdns-dbg is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libgetdns-dbg package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libgetdns-dbg *
You will get with libgetdns-dbg package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Debug packages |
| Package | libgetdns-dbg |
| Version | 0.9.0-1 |
| Description | modern asynchronous DNS API (debug symbols) |
| Sub Section | debug |