Boost Installation

linux boost installation ubuntu-9.04
tpar44 picture tpar44 · Apr 22, 2011 · Viewed 60.1k times · Source

I have a question regarding the installation of the boost libraries. Is there a package that I can use the sudo apt-get install to install this package. I searched all of the questions in this forum and using the commands sudo apt-get install libboost1.40-dev I cannot install theh package with this. Also, I can download it from boost.org but I do not know the correct path to install it too. I would prefer to install it using the sudo apt-get install commands if possible. I am using Ubuntu 9.04. Thanks.

Answer

sehe picture sehe · Apr 22, 2011

If you want to run with the latest version, you can do the bjam install as mentioned by Ralf, but I suggest you build a 'pseudo' package so you can

  • uninstall it safely
  • prevent/notice conflicts with official/existing boost packages.

Here is how to do that:

mkdir -pv /tmp/boostinst
cd /tmp/boostinst/
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.66.0/boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2/download'
tar xf download
cd boost_1_66_0/
./bootstrap.sh --help
./bootstrap.sh --show-libraries
./bootstrap.sh 

checkinstall ./b2 install

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