configure error: Could not link against boost_system

Question

I\'m trying to install a package (soccer simulator 2d) on Debian. When I go to the directory and run ./configure, I get the following:

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Answer 1

In my case I was missing some necessary parts of boost. Try executing on Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-iostreams-dev