libcfitsio3-dev software package provides static library for I/O with FITS format data files, 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 libcfitsio3-dev
libcfitsio3-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libcfitsio3-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libcfitsio3-dev *
You will get with libcfitsio3-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Development |
| Package | libcfitsio3-dev |
| Version | 3.340-2ubuntu2 |
| Description | static library for I/O with FITS format data files |
| Sub Section | devel |