nvidia-cuda-toolkit software package provides NVIDIA CUDA 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 nvidia-cuda-toolkit
nvidia-cuda-toolkit is installed in your system.
Make ensure the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nvidia-cuda-toolkit *
You will get with nvidia-cuda-toolkit package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Development |
| Package | nvidia-cuda-toolkit |
| Version | 5.5.22-3ubuntu1 |
| Description | NVIDIA CUDA toolkit |
| Sub Section | devel |