OS: Ubuntu 15.10(x64) while trying to install Package 'libboost1.55-dev' in Ubuntu, it gives unexpected result. An error message 'Package 'libboost1.55-dev' has no installation candidate' is displayed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. After executing the command 'sudo apt-get build-dep qtbase5-dev' 2. While trying to install the dependency package 'sudo apt-get install libboost1.55-dev' 3. An error message is displayed 'Package 'libboost1.55-dev' has no installation candidate' Actual Results: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libboost1.55-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'libboost1.55-dev' has no installation candidate Expected Results: The package 'libboost1.55-dev' is successfully installed I am running Ubuntu 15.10 on Virtual box on a x64 machine.
This is not a kdesrc-build bug, and applies against the https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source/Install_the_dependencies page in particular. With that said, I've tried to clarify the Wiki page to mention that Boost 1.55 or later is required. Recent versions of Ubuntu no longer package 1.55, but they do package later (and compatible) versions of Boost by default, available by installing "libboost-dev". E.g. see http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/libboost-dev