Boost Installation

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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.

sehe · Answer 1 · 2018-02-08T08:32:21.067

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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

edited Feb 08 '18 at 08:32

answered Apr 22 '11 at 21:16

sehe

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Heads up: `bjam` got renamed to b2` for purposes of building boost with boost v.1_48 – sehe Jun 25 '14 at 18:38
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`sudo checkinstall ./b2 install` worked after installing libbz2-dev – nurettin Aug 15 '16 at 21:14
plus 1 for checkinstall – kyb Mar 11 '19 at 10:31

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '12 at 01:22

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On new boost version there is other way:

sudo apt-get update
wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.50.0/boost_1_50_0.tar.bz2/download'
tar xf download
cd boost_1_50_0
./bootstrap.sh
./b2 install

answered Jul 26 '12 at 01:22

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how can I verify if the boost is correctly installed ? – Farshid Rayhan Nov 26 '18 at 15:03

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '11 at 20:25

You can use command aptitude search libboost to see list of the availiable boost libraries. The last version of boost is 1.42 - maybe that's why you can't find version 1.40.

If aptitude search command don't give you sufficient results, try sudo aptitude update and then run aptitude search again.

Ralf · Answer 4 · 2011-04-23T05:41:25.193

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On my version of Ubuntu (10.04) it's libboost1.40-all-dev

On your version you've probably got an older version of boost, you should just be able to tab-complete to see which version you can install.

In any case what I usually do under Ubuntu is

sudo apt-get install bjam

Extract the downloaded boost archive to your hard-drive and then cd into the root and

sudo bjam install

This way you can get the newest version of boost, and not the slightly outdated one that is available for your Ubuntu version.

edited Apr 23 '11 at 05:41

answered Apr 22 '11 at 20:28

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I can't get bjam...when I type `sudo apt-get bjam` it says that bjam is an invalid operation – tpar44 Apr 22 '11 at 22:58
Oops, omitted "install", fixed it :) – Ralf Apr 23 '11 at 05:42

ucefkh · Answer 5 · 2014-12-13T17:22:13.357

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This is a link which explain step by step on how to install it (give it some time read!)

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

but your inline shell command might be the simple and easy way for doing it

edited Dec 13 '14 at 17:22

answered Oct 21 '12 at 03:56

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