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I have a boost 1.49 in my ubuntu system. And I am trying to uninstall boost 1.49 and completely remove it from my system.

And after that install the Boost 1.54.0

I did like this to uninstall 1.49 from my system - 

sudo apt-get --purge remove libboost-dev
sudo apt-get --purge remove libboost-all-dev

And after that when I do below command to see the version, it still says I have 1.49

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_49"

Not sure why?

And I tried installing Boost 1.54.0 version like this - 

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.54.0/boost_1_54_0.tar.gz/download
tar -xvzf boost_1_54_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_54_0/
./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=atomic,date_time,exception,filesystem,iostreams,locale,program_options,regex,signals,system,test,thread,timer,log
sudo ./b2 install

But still it is not showing me boost 1.54.0 version installed?

Any pointers how to remove BOOST 1.49 from my system and install BOOST 1.54 in my machine?

Braiam
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arsenal
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You need to uninstall the libboost1.49-dev package... actually, it should be removed with a single sudo apt-get autoremove. If you are not sure do this:

dpkg -S /usr/include/boost/version.hpp

This will return the package that has this file, then you can:

sudo apt-get autoremove package
Braiam
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