librpm-dev software package provides RPM shared library, development kit, 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 librpm-dev
librpm-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the librpm-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep librpm-dev *
You will get with librpm-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | librpm-dev |
| Version | 4.11.1-3ubuntu0.1 [amd64, i386 |
| Description | RPM shared library, development kit |
| Sub Section | libdevel |