Installing Boost in Ubuntu

• sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev 

  sudo apt-get install aptitude 

  aptitude search boost

  Reference 

• Alternately you can download the specific version and install it like the following:
• Download Boost (I used 1.55)
  • tar xzvf boost_1_55_0.tar.gz 

  • cd boost_1_55_0/  

  • sudo apt-get update 

  • sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev build-essential libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev   
    

•  Boost's bootstrap setup:

  ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local