Update library: Boost on Debian 7

Question

I am a newbie on unix systems and I've currently a problem with libs updates. I don't know really how to update the library Boost to the version 1.55

I tried this way but the boost system version returns 1.48.

$ wget
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.55.0/boost_1_55_0.tar.gz
$ gunzip boost_1_55_0.tar.gz
$ tar xvf boost_1_55_0.tar

I also tried apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Then i got some errors:

Get:1 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports Release.gpg [1,554 B] Hit http://ftp.debian.org wheezy/main i386 Packages Hit http://ftp.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en Get:2 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports Release [161 kB] Get:3 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/main amd64 Packages [606 kB] Get:4 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/main i386 Packages [607 kB] Err http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Sources 404 Not Found Err http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main amd64 Packages 404 Not Found Get:5 http://http.debian.net wheezy-backports/main Translation-en [376 kB] Err http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Translation-en_GB Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Translation-en Fetched 1,752 kB in 1s (896 kB/s) W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/boost-latest/ppa/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/boost-latest/ppa/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/boost-latest/ppa/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. root@vps299256:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade E: Type ' https://packages.debian.org/fr/wheezy/libboost-dev ' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list E: The list of sources could not be read.

Answer 1

Debian 7.11 Wheezy - amd64. Building the 55 libboost1.55 packages :

/etc/apt/sources.lists ... added two lines :

deb-src http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb-src http://ftp.dk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/updates main

The build-deps ( Summary of 'apt-get build-dep', and then some ) : # apt-get install g++ fakeroot dctrl-tools libbz2-dev libicu-dev mpi-default-dev bison flex docbook-to-man help2man xsltproc doxygen python-all-dev python3 python3-all-dev debhelper dpkg-dev ... And from [wheezy-backports] : dh-python

Building boost-1.55 in /home/[name]/tmp/boost_1.55/ :

$ apt-get -b source boost1.55=1.55.0+dfsg-3 ... and the libboost 1.55 packages for Debian 7 are created.

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The packages (112.5MB) are uploaded as libboost1.55_debian-7.11.tar https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNeGFRZFF6S0g5N3M/view?usp=sharing ... Download, untar with tar xvf libboost1.55_debian-7.11.tar , cd libboost1.55_debian-7.11/ , and install with # dpkg -i *.deb