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After installing Boost library using Synaptic Package Manager, the version installed is 1.42.

If I check on boost official website, the current version is: 1.45.

How can I upgrade to 1.45 from Synaptic package manager?

Thanks in advance.

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You probably can not as the distribution usually lags behind. The best option I usually follow is to just download and compile and install it myself as described here

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at the moment, I am using cmake to include the boost library but it seems it always add the version from the system, how can I specify the version in the cmake build file? thanks in advance!
Never used cmake before but just seen CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH on cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables (sorry can't add links)
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It has to be packaged first (by Ubuntu).

If you want to manually install the new version I would recommend that you install it into some local directory, since installing it into the system might break a lot of applications.

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