libsnappy-dev software package provides fast compression/decompression 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 libsnappy-dev
libsnappy-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libsnappy-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libsnappy-dev *
You will get with libsnappy-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libsnappy-dev |
| Version | 1.1.0-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | fast compression/decompression library (development files) |
| Sub Section | libdevel |