libboost-atomic-dev software package provides atomic data types, operations, and memory ordering constraints (default version), 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 libboost-atomic-dev
libboost-atomic-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libboost-atomic-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libboost-atomic-dev *
You will get with libboost-atomic-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libboost-atomic-dev |
| Version | 1.54.0.1ubuntu1 |
| Description | atomic data types, operations, and memory ordering constraints (default version) |
| Sub Section | libdevel |