aptitude-dbg software package provides Debug symbols for the aptitude package manager, 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 aptitude-dbg
aptitude-dbg is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aptitude-dbg package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aptitude-dbg *
You will get with aptitude-dbg package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | aptitude-dbg |
| Version | 0.7.4-2ubuntu2 |
| Description | Debug symbols for the aptitude package manager |
| Sub Section | Devel |