On 2015-04-24 22:17:55 Ben Pope wrote:

This doesn't really answer the question, but as a practical note, you can do: sudo apt-get build-dep libboost* Which will install the build dependencies for the version of Boost in your repository, rather than the version you're trying to build, but it should get you where you want to be most of the time.

FYI, I submitted a documentation pull request for adding a short section about pre-requisite software installation: https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/78 marko