libprotoc8 software package provides protocol buffers compiler 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 libprotoc8
libprotoc8 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libprotoc8 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libprotoc8 *
You will get with libprotoc8 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Libraries |
| Package | libprotoc8 |
| Version | 2.5.0-9ubuntu1 |
| Description | protocol buffers compiler library |
| Sub Section | libs |