libplplot-dev software package provides Scientific plotting 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 libplplot-dev
libplplot-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libplplot-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libplplot-dev *
You will get with libplplot-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libplplot-dev |
| Version | 5.10.0-0ubuntu5 |
| Description | Scientific plotting library (development files) |
| Sub Section | libdevel |