How to install Boost on Ubuntu
You can use apt-get
command (requires sudo
)
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
Or you can call
aptitude search boost
find packages you need and install them using the apt-get
command.
Get the version of Boost that you require. This is for 1.55 but feel free to change or manually download yourself:
wget -O boost_1_55_0.tar.gz https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.55.0/boost_1_55_0.tar.gz/download
tar xzvf boost_1_55_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_55_0/
Get the required libraries, main ones are icu
for boost::regex
support:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev
Boost's bootstrap setup:
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/
Then build it with:
./b2
and eventually install it:
sudo ./b2 install