libmatroska-dev software package provides extensible open standard audio/video container format (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 libmatroska-dev
libmatroska-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libmatroska-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libmatroska-dev *
You will get with libmatroska-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libmatroska-dev |
| Version | 1.4.1-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1 [ |
| Description | extensible open standard audio/video container format (development files) |
| Sub Section | libdevel |