How to check what file are installed by libboost-all-dev?

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Jul 27 05:04:55 UTC 2013


Peng Yu wrote:
> I see the following files. But should there be more files installed
> (e.g., header files). How to show all files installed by
> libboost-all-dev? Thanks.
> 
> ~$ dpkg -L libboost-all-dev
[...]

The list of files is OK. The package libboost-all-dev is a meta-package. 
It depends on various other -dev packages which provide the header files 
you are looking for. You can find out the dependencies with the command

apt-cache depends libboost-all-dev


Nils





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