Issue
A few months ago I installed boost on Ubuntu 22.04 using:
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
This installed version 1.74. However, I need 1.82 and the 22.04 repositories do not contain 1.82.
I am aware of this page:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_82_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
but it mentions the installation path as /usr/local:
Select your configuration options and invoke ./bootstrap.sh again without the --help option. Unless you have write permission in your system's /usr/local/ directory, you'll probably want to at least use
whereas my current installation on Ubuntu seems to be /usr/include/boost/?
Do I just download the tar to my Downloads and enter:
cd Downloads/boost_1_82_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/include/
?
So the emphasis on the question is, for Ubuntu should I use that prefix/is the above correct?
(Asking as I don't want to corrupt my existing environment)
Solution
Install boost-1.82 from Lauchpad PPA Builds of latest releases of the C++ BOOST library.
Follow the manual from there.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mhier/libboost-latest
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libboost
# or sudo apt install libboost1.82-dev
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