mt-st software package provides Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control (aka mt), 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 mt-st
mt-st is installed in your system.
Make ensure the mt-st package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep mt-st *
You will get with mt-st package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | mt-st |
| Version | 1.1-5ubuntu1 |
| Description | Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control (aka mt) |
| Sub Section | Admin |