How to Install and Uninstall libboost-iostreams-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "libboost-iostreams-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libboost-iostreams-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libboost-iostreams-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libboost-iostreams-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libboost-iostreams-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libboost-iostreams-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libboost-iostreams-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libboost-iostreams-dev
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 10
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Boost Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: boost-defaults
Version: 1.58.0.1ubuntu1
Depends: libboost-iostreams1.58-dev
Filename: pool/universe/b/boost-defaults/libboost-iostreams-dev_1.58.0.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 2784
MD5sum: 6eed3a4060cc9c3765677e43cde027d0
SHA1: 8dd80241d2e4d6274465315745bbe96b02b33000
SHA256: 1073d86ab9174badaae1cd528d8741b38d115597de12247ed36f9231d373f576
Description-en: Boost.Iostreams Library development files (default version)
This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
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Boost.Iostreams are a collection of concepts and a set of templates
which turn models of these concepts into C++ standard library streams
and stream buffers.
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This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default
Boost version (currently 1.58).
Description-md5: 874e8dcd6312a79489d9230b9fca1b88
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu