nwipe software package provides Utility to securely erase disks, 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 nwipe
nwipe is installed in your system.
Make ensure the nwipe package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nwipe *
You will get with nwipe package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | nwipe |
| Version | 0.14-1 |
| Description | Utility to securely erase disks |
| Sub Section | Utils |