octave-pkg-dev software package provides infrastructure to build Octave packages, 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 octave-pkg-dev
octave-pkg-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the octave-pkg-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep octave-pkg-dev *
You will get with octave-pkg-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Development |
| Package | octave-pkg-dev |
| Version | 1.1.1 |
| Description | infrastructure to build Octave packages |
| Sub Section | devel |