libhippocanvas-dev software package provides a GTK+2.0 canvas library, 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 libhippocanvas-dev
libhippocanvas-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libhippocanvas-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libhippocanvas-dev *
You will get with libhippocanvas-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libhippocanvas-dev |
| Version | 0.3.1-1.1ubuntu1 |
| Description | a GTK+2.0 canvas library |
| Sub Section | libdevel |