libpfm4 software package provides Library to program the performance monitoring events, 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 libpfm4
libpfm4 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libpfm4 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libpfm4 *
You will get with libpfm4 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Libraries |
| Package | libpfm4 |
| Version | 4.4.0+git47-g71166e2-1 |
| Description | Library to program the performance monitoring events |
| Sub Section | libs |