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Question

I have a GCC OpenMp library (libgomp.so) that doesn't contain any symbol, and I need to either install/compile a new library with symbols or obtain debug information for the library. I found something (lib64gomp1-dbg) in the gcc-5 package, but I'm not sure if this is what I want and I don't know how to install it either (I've tried sudo apt-get lib64gompl-dbg, but it didn't work, it threw the error: E: Invalid operation lib64gompl-dbg). So how can I get debug symbols for the library? I'm fresh new to Linux, can somebody give me a hint on how to do that? Thanks a lot!

Answer

You need to use

sudo apt install lib64gompl-dbg

(Note the inclusion of the word install.)