ncbi-data software package provides Platform-independent data for the NCBI toolkit, 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 ncbi-data
ncbi-data is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ncbi-data package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ncbi-data *
You will get with ncbi-data package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Libraries |
| Package | ncbi-data |
| Version | 6.1.20120620-7 |
| Description | Platform-independent data for the NCBI toolkit |
| Sub Section | libs |