[GNC] Boost on Ubuntu 25.10

[John Ralls]

ICU shares the annoying behavior of versioning their shared libraries so that you have to rebuild anything that depends on them every time they’re upgraded.

Regards,
JOhn Ralls


> On Nov 4, 2025, at 1:30 PM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> After upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10 I had to re-install the libboost-all-dev package (the upgrade appeared to have removed it) in order to compile the latest version of GnC.
> 
> Just an FYI to anyone else who locally compiles GnC on a Ubuntu box.
> 
> Note:  GnC -- currently working to compile 5.13-36.
>             Ubuntu -- 25.10
> 
> Attempting to run the prior version of GnC (5.13-9) compiled under Ubuntu 25.04 gives:
> 
>   gnucash --debug
>   gnucash: error while loading shared libraries:
>   libboost_program_options.so.1.83.0: cannot open shared object file:
>   No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Search shows these are on my box after the 25.10 upgrade:
> 
>   sudo find / -name libboost_program_options.so*
>   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_program_options.so
>   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_program_options.so.1.88.0
>   /home/steve/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/iwyj6lvo.default/pepmda/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.62.0
>   /home/steve/.thunderbird/iwyj6lvo.default/pepmda/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.62.0
> 
> 
> The recompile works.
> 
> --Steve
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