libreadline-dev software package provides GNU readline and history libraries, 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 libreadline-dev
libreadline-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libreadline-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libreadline-dev *
You will get with libreadline-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libreadline-dev |
| Version | 6.3-4ubuntu2 |
| Description | GNU readline and history libraries, development files |
| Sub Section | libdevel |
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