lua-curses-dev software package provides curses development files for the Lua language, 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 lua-curses-dev
lua-curses-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the lua-curses-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep lua-curses-dev *
You will get with lua-curses-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Library development |
| Package | lua-curses-dev |
| Version | 29-7ubuntu1 |
| Description | curses development files for the Lua language |
| Sub Section | libdevel |