How to Install and Uninstall libboost-filesystem-dev Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 06,2024

1. Install "libboost-filesystem-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libboost-filesystem-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libboost-filesystem-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libboost-filesystem-dev on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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3. Information about the libboost-filesystem-dev package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: libboost-filesystem-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.71.0.0ubuntu4
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: boost-defaults
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Boost Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 11
Depends: libboost-filesystem1.71-dev
Filename: pool/main/b/boost-defaults/libboost-filesystem-dev_1.71.0.0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 3336
MD5sum: 48aaaa9834cd476a29a042535018dc28
SHA1: 5032379b40568501e93ce6491b90f149808883f4
SHA256: f878fa01af70095768b52fcec65abcb8bcbb57350b8a85cdd0507451fa7f35a5
SHA512: f4d624b2e3c5211f47a65caaeeb967d7262e2a87539fb50681443e24f216dc5c6bc916a90b7a4cd1b6dff8130af854b6ce2a6d2ecd89e1b50225335e1235cf51
Homepage: http://boost.org/libs/filesystem/
Description-en: filesystem operations (portable paths, iteration over directories, etc) in C++ (default version)
This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
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The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and
manipulate paths, files, and directories. The goal is to
facilitate portable script-like operations from within C++ programs.
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This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
Boost version (currently 1.71).
Description-md5: 04f58b4b88473b96bfe2925d920aa1db