Unable to locate package libboost-python1-40-dev?

Question

I'm installing sorl-thumbnail and one of its requirements is libboost-python1.40-dev.

When I try to install it with sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.40-dev, I'm getting E:Unable to locate package libboost-python1.40-dev. How can I install this package?

Answer 1

Maybe a wrong version? This works for me:

 sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.49-dev

Answer 2

You probably have a different version of the package. What does

apt-cache search boost-python

give you? That's the name of the package you need to install (use the dev variant if you get multiple results).

If your package version is lower than 1.40, you can do two things:

• cross your fingers and hope things will work

• upgrade your system, or find a way to add the updated package to your package manager

If your package version is larger than 1.40, you should be reasonably safe, unless there was some awkward backwards-incompatible change.