Re: [Boost-users] Trouble Updating Boost to run OpenFOAM

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Trouble Updating Boost to run OpenFOAM
From: Peter Steinbach (steinbach_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-09 15:03:49

Hi Blair,

the following will get the job done, but will clutter your system with 
manually build binaries (which I don't recommend and others warned about 
already).

On 09.06.2016 20:19, Blair Climenhaga wrote:
>
> 1.
>
>     Download an unzip to a directory to /home/su2/Programs such that
>     boost_1_61_0 is now in the directory.
>
>  2. cd into the boost_1_61_0 directory
> 3.
>
>     Ran ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local
>
> 4.
>
>     Ran ./b2
>
         5. Ran sudo ./b2 install

You can do all steps as a regular user which has sudo rights.

As Leon suggests, this is documented in 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#easy-build-and-install 
!

Best,
Peter

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