libevent-dev software package provides Asynchronous event notification library (development files), you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libevent-dev
libevent-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libevent-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libevent-dev *
You will get with libevent-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libevent-dev |
| Version | 2.0.21-stable-2 |
| Description | Asynchronous event notification library (development files) |
| Sub Section | Libdevel |
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