On Monday, November 6, 2017 6:09:59 PM CST Gavin Lambert via Boost-users wrote:
On 6/11/2017 04:51, Alex Luya wrote:
so I tried to purge it
sudo apt-get purge libboost1.58-dev
That is never a good idea. You can't remove the system Boost libraries without removing or rebuilding every other system package that depends on it, which will most likely break your system.
What Alex is doing is fine. You CAN safely remove the DEVELOPMENT libraries -- which is what Alex would (partly) accomplish by "apt-get purge libboost1.58-dev". Alex: you likely have other remaining boost development libraries -- each library that comes with a .so file will have a corresponding -dev package. You can see what remains on your system with a command such as: dpkg --list|grep boost.*dev You can purge all of these. -Steve