python-novaclient software package provides client library for OpenStack Compute API, 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 python-novaclient
python-novaclient is installed in your system.
Make ensure the python-novaclient package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep python-novaclient *
You will get with python-novaclient package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Python |
| Package | python-novaclient |
| Version | 1:2.17.0-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | client library for OpenStack Compute API |
| Sub Section | Python |