How to upgrade the Boost library on Ubuntu

If you use Ubuntu LTS, you are stuck with a pretty old version of the Boost library. You can upgrade to the latest version of Boost in a few steps:

• First uninstall all the Boost library packages of the current version.

• Next, add the PPA ppa:boost-latest/ppa and upgrade your installation:

[code lang=cpp] $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:boost-latest/ppa $ sudo apt-get update

  * Look at the latest version Boost library packages available to you and install those that you need:



[code lang=cpp]
$ aptitude search boost
$ sudo apt-get install libboost1.54-dev

Tried with: Ubuntu 12.04