Ben Hutchings wrote:
They are probably included in the "universe" component, which doesn't have the same level of support. It's not enabled by default but should be easily accessible.
On Ubuntu, I think if you edit /etc/apt/sources.list you will see that by un-commenting a line in sources.list you can get access to the entire ubuntu archive, including Universe. You can see that Ubuntu provides the boost packages: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ls-lR.gz If you're new to Ubuntu/Debian, then I would advise against mixing binary packages. If you really need a package that's available on Debian but not Ubuntu, it's probably safer to do "apt-get source" and build the package yourself (though I haven't tried this on Ubuntu). This is especially true with C++ libraries, because of Compiler ABI changes, stdc++ library changes, etc which can make binaries very incompatible, sometimes with only a link warning that flies by your screen. Next thing you know your app is core dumping without a clue...