openvswitch-switch software package provides Open vSwitch switch implementations, 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 openvswitch-switch
openvswitch-switch is installed in your system.
Make ensure the openvswitch-switch package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep openvswitch-switch *
You will get with openvswitch-switch package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | openvswitch-switch |
| Version | 2.0.1+git20140120-0ubuntu2 |
| Description | Open vSwitch switch implementations |
| Sub Section | Net |