openmpi-common software package provides high performance message passing library -- common files, 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 openmpi-common
openmpi-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the openmpi-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep openmpi-common *
You will get with openmpi-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | openmpi-common |
| Version | 1.6.5-8 |
| Description | high performance message passing library -- common files |
| Sub Section | Net |