metacity-common software package provides shared files for the Metacity window manager, 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 metacity-common
metacity-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the metacity-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep metacity-common *
You will get with metacity-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Miscellaneous |
| Package | metacity-common |
| Version | 1:2.34.13-0ubuntu4 |
| Description | shared files for the Metacity window manager |
| Sub Section | misc |