libarchive-extract-perl software package provides generic archive extracting module, 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 libarchive-extract-perl
libarchive-extract-perl is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libarchive-extract-perl package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libarchive-extract-perl *
You will get with libarchive-extract-perl package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Perl |
| Package | libarchive-extract-perl |
| Version | 0.70-1 |
| Description | generic archive extracting module |
| Sub Section | Perl |