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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Ing. Gabriele Oberhammer wrote:
> Hi, a little note on compiling PCBNEW under Ubuntu Linux:
> In 'how-to-bulid-kicad.txt' is stated you have to install boost library 
> headers.
> Installing 'libboost-dev' is not sufficient, you need to install 
> 'libboost-serialization-dev' too. I.e.:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-serialization-dev
>
> Bye.
>
> PS: You guys are doing a tremendous job here :-D
Thanks Gabriele,

I'm wondering if this requirement is specific to your version of 
Ubuntu.... I am running Gutsy here and what you say seems *not* to be 
required on that version. Maybe the package composition changed 
somewhere between some of the Ubuntu releases. Your posting may come in 
handy for others who run into the the same problem. But I also would 
think that the package manager will find this type of dependency for 
other users and simply tell them they need to install what is needed.

Thanks for your feedback,


Dick