libfontforge-dev software package provides font editor - runtime library (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 libfontforge-dev
libfontforge-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libfontforge-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libfontforge-dev *
You will get with libfontforge-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libfontforge-dev |
| Version | 20120731.b-5 |
| Description | font editor - runtime library (development files) |
| Sub Section | libdevel |