Ubuntu:C++::Boost library upgrade

Question

After installing Boost library using Synaptic Package Manager, the version installed is 1.42.

If I check on boost official website, the current version is: 1.45.

How can I upgrade to 1.45 from Synaptic package manager?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It has to be packaged first (by Ubuntu).

If you want to manually install the new version I would recommend that you install it into some local directory, since installing it into the system might break a lot of applications.

Answer 2

You probably can not as the distribution usually lags behind. The best option I usually follow is to just download and compile and install it myself as described here