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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-02-29 09:52:27 +0100
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-02-29 09:52:33 +0100
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Merge #7590: Improving wording related to Boost library requirements [updated]
8c5a5fb Improving wording related to Boost library requirements [updated] (Jonathan Cross)
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@@ -67,15 +67,17 @@ Build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils
-On at least Ubuntu 14.04+ and Debian 7+ there are generic names for the
+Options when installing required Boost library files:
+
+1. On at least Ubuntu 14.04+ and Debian 7+ there are generic names for the
individual boost development packages, so the following can be used to only
install necessary parts of boost:
- sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
+ sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
-If that doesn't work, you can install all boost development packages with:
+2. If that doesn't work, you can install all boost development packages with:
- sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
+ sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
BerkeleyDB is required for the wallet. db4.8 packages are available [here](https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin).
You can add the repository and install using the following commands: