partman-base software package provides Partition the storage devices (partman), 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 partman-base
partman-base is installed in your system.
Make ensure the partman-base package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep partman-base *
You will get with partman-base package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | debian-installer udeb packages |
| Package | partman-base |
| Version | 172ubuntu1 |
| Description | Partition the storage devices (partman) |
| Sub Section | Debian-installer |