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My machine is an ubuntu 14.04 with ROS.

when I do : 

$ dpkg -s libboost-dev | grep 'Version'
Version: 1.54.0.1ubuntu1

Now that I need to work with later versions (mainly 1.62)of Boost, I followed the answer found here, Boost 1.62 is installed but getting the boost version as above returns the same old 1.54.0.

Do I need to do anything else, so my system will point to the new 1.62 version ?

So the result to be is this :

$ dpkg -s libboost-dev | grep 'Version'
Version: 1.62.0.1ubuntu1

Thanks.

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If you're installing a newer version of Boost outside dpkg, then dpkg obviously won't be aware of the new version (hence why running dpkg libboost-dev still points to the old version).

If Boost compiled/installed with no problems, then you just need to link the Boost libraries at compile time for whatever binary you're working on.

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