How to install boost libraries in Ubuntu/Linux?
Posted by Joys of Programming on in C/C++
Boost libraries are C++ libraries which provides a lot of additional functionalities which the standard C++ libraries do not provide. Boost libraries are present across all platforms. To install boost in linux, install the boost libraries in the following manner
$ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev [sudo] password for user: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libboost1.40-dev Suggested packages: libboost1.40-doc libboost-date-time1.40-dev libboost-filesystem1.40-dev libboost-graph1.40-dev libboost-iostreams1.40-dev libboost-math1.40-dev libboost-program-options1.40-dev libboost-python1.40-dev libboost-regex1.40-dev libboost-serialization1.40-dev libboost-signals1.40-dev libboost-system1.40-dev libboost-test1.40-dev libboost-thread1.40-dev libboost-wave1.40-dev docbook-xsl fop The following NEW packages will be installed: libboost-dev libboost1.40-dev 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 6,151kB of archives. After this operation, 66.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
The boost development header files are available in the directory /usr/include/boost
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