libexpat1-dev software package provides XML parsing C library - development kit, 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 libexpat1-dev
libexpat1-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libexpat1-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libexpat1-dev *
You will get with libexpat1-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libexpat1-dev |
| Version | 2.1.0-4ubuntu1.3 [amd64, i386] |
| Description | XML parsing C library - development kit |
| Sub Section | libdevel |