Re: [Boost-users] Under ubuntu, How to purge default boost-v1.58 then switch to the built version without any damages?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Under ubuntu, How to purge default boost-v1.58 then switch to the built version without any damages?
From: Steve Robbins (steve_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-11-06 05:48:29

On Monday, November 6, 2017 6:09:59 PM CST Gavin Lambert via Boost-users 
wrote:
> On 6/11/2017 04:51, Alex Luya wrote:

> > so I tried to purge it
> > 
> > 	sudo apt-get purge libboost1.58-dev
> 
> That is never a good idea.  You can't remove the system Boost libraries
> without removing or rebuilding every other system package that depends
> on it, which will most likely break your system.

What Alex is doing is fine.  You CAN safely remove the DEVELOPMENT libraries 
-- which is what Alex would (partly) accomplish by "apt-get purge 
libboost1.58-dev".   

Alex: you likely have other remaining boost development libraries -- each 
library that comes with a .so file will have a corresponding -dev package.  
You can see what remains on your system with a command such as:

dpkg --list|grep boost.*dev

You can purge all of these.

-Steve