octave-symbolic software package provides symbolic package for Octave, 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-symbolic
octave-symbolic is installed in your system.
Make ensure the octave-symbolic package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep octave-symbolic *
You will get with octave-symbolic package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Mathematics |
| Package | octave-symbolic |
| Version | 1.1.0-2build1 |
| Description | symbolic package for Octave |
| Sub Section | math |