Hi Blair, the following will get the job done, but will clutter your system with manually build binaries (which I don't recommend and others warned about already). On 09.06.2016 20:19, Blair Climenhaga wrote:
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Download an unzip to a directory to /home/su2/Programs such that boost_1_61_0 is now in the directory.
2. cd into the boost_1_61_0 directory 3.
Ran ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local
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Ran ./b2
5. Ran sudo ./b2 install You can do all steps as a regular user which has sudo rights. As Leon suggests, this is documented in http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html... ! Best, Peter -- Peter Steinbach, Dr. rer. nat. HPC Developer Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH Tatzberg 47-51 01307 Dresden fon: +49 351 210 2882 fax: +49 351 210 1689 http://www.scionics.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Dresden (Main office) Amtsgericht - Registergericht: Dresden HRB 20337 (Commercial Registry) Ust-IdNr.: DE813263791 (VAT ID Number) Geschäftsführer: John Duperon, Jeff Oegema (Managing Directors)