How to install Boost on Ubuntu

Get the version of Boost that you require. This is for 1.55 but feel free to change or manually download yourself:

wget -O boost_1_55_0.tar.gz https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.55.0/boost_1_55_0.tar.gz/download
tar xzvf boost_1_55_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_55_0/

Get the required libraries, main ones are icu for boost::regex support:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev libbz2-dev libboost-all-dev

Boost's bootstrap setup:

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/

Then build it with:

./b2

and eventually install it:

sudo ./b2 install

You can use apt-get command (requires sudo)

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

Or you can call

aptitude search boost

find packages you need and install them using the apt-get command.