libboost-all-dev & Ubuntu 20.04 - One minor version behind
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Following the documentation on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 server (fully updated) - I installed boost as the following:
Next install the [Boost](http://www.boost.org/) (1.57.0 or newer) development package:
$ sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
It says as long as 1.57.0 or newer, it is "should" be good to go. Though after running the install script, I am hit with the following:
checking for boostlib >= 1.72.0 (107200)... configure: We could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.72.0 or higher). If you have a staged boost library (still not insn. If you are sure you have boost installed, then check your version number looking in <boost/version.hpp>. See http://randspringer.de/boost for more documentation.
configure: error: Boost 1.72.0 or later is required but was not found.
The default in Ubuntu 20.04 repos is boost 1.71.0 - Can the documentation be updated to include the proper way to install boost 1.72.0?
I'll be working on updating the documentation. However you may want to try executing the ./install.sh --with-icu --build-icu --build-boost --prefix=<prefix path> and allowing the script to attempt to install the dependencies and bs into a prefix directory. If you experience problems then I would be happy to try and help you.
Installing boost manually is a bit tedious and appears to have documented issues specifically related to Ubuntu 20.04. I've successfully built via Ubuntu 22.04, however there is a known issue related to pthread documented as a 20.04 issue which required a single line edit in sources to complete compilation. Strangely, this doesn't come up via ubuntu-latest in Github Actions, and the install.sh succeeds, so that would be the place to start.