Uninstall boost and install another version

Question

I\'ve installed the boost libraries on Linux Mint 12 using the command sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-doc, which installs the default version availa

Answer 1

Downgrade your boost version. I'm not familiar with Mint, but assuming it is deb-based, you can do:

apt-cache show libboost-dev

to see all installable version and install a specific version with

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev=1.42.0.1

There are also convenience packages for the major boost versions:

sudo apt-get install libboost1.44-dev