Installing Boost 1.54 (Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora) « Particle Physics and Code. Finally, one of the my favourite aspects of C++. Boost is one of the most well received additions to the C++ standard library that is out there. So much so in fact that you can see a lot of its implementation absorbed into the new standard, C++11; an example in point been shared pointers, initialisation of static containers such as std::map, the foreach iterator, boost::array is now std::array, addition of unordered sets and of course this is just a drop in the ocean of what else is now included.
Boost is well developed and has been well supported over the years. Covering boost would take forever and a day and I am certainly no authority on the subject, however, to follow on from the promise in the last blog, and show you how to install this wonderful toolkit. Boost is extremely simple to install, as usual you can try the “sudo apt-cache search boost” (Ubuntu) or “yum search boost” (Fedora) first and see if there are libraries already pre-compiled for your distro. Like this: