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I just want to know how I can find the version of boost installed in my ubuntu 12.04? I am having trouble with the current precise and thinking of reverting back to 8.04. What is the boost version in 8.04?

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The version of libboost on my 12.04 system is 1.48.0.2. Here's how you can find out:

dpkg -s libboost-dev | grep 'Version'
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Jorge Castro
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    This method work only if you installed it properly. If you install the boost manually, you will get something like: dpkg-query: package 'libboost-dev' is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. – Kemin Zhou Feb 18 '20 at 00:07
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You can check version.hpp inside Boost include dir (normally /usr/include/boost, you can use locate /boost/version.hpp or similar to get that) for BOOST_VERSION or BOOST_LIB_VERSION. 

$ cat /usr/include/boost/version.hpp | grep "BOOST_LIB_VERSION"

//  BOOST_LIB_VERSION must be defined to be the same as BOOST_VERSION
#define BOOST_LIB_VERSION "1_53"

SO: How to determine the Boost version on a system?

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    Also check /usr/local/include/boost/version.hpp. I found a higher version of boost there. 1_62 vs 1_58 – smac89 Aug 18 '17 at 03:19
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In the C++ source file!

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/version.hpp>

int main() {
  std::cout << BOOST_LIB_VERSION << '\n';
}
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