libedit-dev software package provides BSD editline and history libraries (development 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 libedit-dev
libedit-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libedit-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libedit-dev *
You will get with libedit-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libedit-dev |
| Version | 3.1-20130712-2 |
| Description | BSD editline and history libraries (development files) |
| Sub Section | libdevel |