libacpi-dev software package provides development files for libacpi, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libacpi-dev
libacpi-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libacpi-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libacpi-dev *
You will get with libacpi-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libacpi-dev |
| Version | 0.2-4ubuntu1 |
| Description | development files for libacpi |
| Sub Section | libdevel |