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I run 

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

and yet I see nothing in my /usr/include directory for boost.

   0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
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Yet the boost folder is still missing.

Why is happening?

ryanw
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  • Will you edit your question and place the output of sudo apt install --reinstall libboost-all-dev? Also, which version of Ubuntu are you running? Whatever errors you get, if any, are important. – L. D. James Jan 16 '17 at 22:13
  • When you [edit] your post to provide the info L. D. James has requested, please also give the output of dpkg -S atomic.hpp (in case the boost headers are somewhere) and lsb_release -a and provide the contents of /var/log/apt/history.log and /var/log/dpkg.log. The site styles code in a way that limits their vertical height and makes them scrollable, so it'll probably be readable even if these are very long, but in case they're too long to be accepted (could happen with dpkg.log) or it's inconvenient to put them in your post, you could use https://paste.ubuntu.com/ and add links. – Eliah Kagan Jan 16 '17 at 22:59
  • I found out what happened. I had to do sudo apt-get purge libboost1.58-dev and then sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev – Kashif Jan 16 '17 at 23:11
  • Seems like just reinstalling libboost-all-dev does nothing because it just calls the libboost1.58-* packages. – Kashif Jan 16 '17 at 23:12
  • Looking at your output it appears that your first attempt at install didn't go. The output you displayed is a normal output for an initial install. Will you give the output of ls -ld /usr/include/b*? It will hardly be more than two lines so a comment response should sufficiently verify the proper installation (or an indication that there is something wrong). – L. D. James Jan 17 '17 at 00:34

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Your Boost libraries were missing because you you, inadvertently didn't have it installed. The command I provided you with in the comments was a verification of the installation. If the libraries had been properly installed the output would have been just a couple of lines.

The first line of your output was:

0 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

This showed that 27 packages were missing and installed while processing the command.

Install/Reinstall command:

$ sudo apt install --reinstall libboost-all-dev

Output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,228 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 262406 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libboost-all-dev_1.58.0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libboost-all-dev (1.58.0.1ubuntu1) over (1.58.0.1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libboost-all-dev (1.58.0.1ubuntu1) ...

Now that the Boost is properly installed the reinstall will only show 10 lines if reinstalled. This commandline will show you your boost includes directory:

$ ls -ld /usr/include/b*

The output will be about two lines:

drwxr-xr-x 103 root root 12288 Jan 16 17:01 /usr/include/boost
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1404 Nov 16 17:43 /usr/include/byteswap.h
L. D. James
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  • No does not worked for me....

    sudo apt install --reinstall libboost-all-dev Preparing to unpack .../libboost-all-dev_1.58.0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libboost-all-dev (1.58.0.1ubuntu1) over (1.58.0.1ubuntu1) ... Setting up libboost-all-dev (1.58.0.1ubuntu1) ...

    /usr/include$ ls -ld /usr/include/b* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1404 Jan 14 21:49 /usr/include/byteswap.h marius@HPP:/usr/include

     – user2195463 May 16 '18 at 20:17