python-xlwt software package provides module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 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 python-xlwt
python-xlwt is installed in your system.
Make ensure the python-xlwt package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep python-xlwt *
You will get with python-xlwt package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Python |
| Package | python-xlwt |
| Version | 0.7.5+debian1-1 |
| Description | module for writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files |
| Sub Section | Python |