libsuitesparse-metis-dev software package provides collection of libraries for computations for sparse matrices, 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 libsuitesparse-metis-dev
libsuitesparse-metis-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libsuitesparse-metis-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libsuitesparse-metis-dev *
You will get with libsuitesparse-metis-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | libsuitesparse-metis-dev |
| Version | 3.1.0-2ubuntu1 |
| Description | collection of libraries for computations for sparse matrices |
| Sub Section | libdevel |