python-zbar software package provides bar code scanner and decoder (Python bindings), 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-zbar
python-zbar is installed in your system.
Make ensure the python-zbar package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep python-zbar *
You will get with python-zbar package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Python |
| Package | python-zbar |
| Version | 0.10+doc-9build1 |
| Description | bar code scanner and decoder (Python bindings) |
| Sub Section | Python |