:Author: Torsten Bergander building libtorrent-0.11 on ubuntu Edy Eft 6.10 =============================================== 1. Install prerequisites (maybe cann be stripped down but it works):: sudo apt-get install bjam boost-build libboost-date-time-dev libboost-date-time1.33.1 libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-filesystem1.33.1 libboost-graph-dev libboost-graph1.33.1 libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-iostreams1.33.1 libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.33.1 libboost-regex-dev libboost-regex1.33.1 libboost-serialization-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-signals1.33.1 libboost-test-dev libboost-test1.33.1 libboost-thread-dev libboost-thread1.33.1 libboost-wave-dev libboost-dev 2. Get release tar ball (0.11 at time of writing), unpack, change into:: libtorrent-0.11 dir 3. Build and install:: export BOOST_BUILD_PATH=/usr/share/boost-build/tools ./configure make sudo make install