I have a production server with Ubuntu 20.04 and Python v3.8.10.
My development environment is Ubuntu 22.04 with Python v3.10.6.
Both environments make use of a virtual environment when running python code.
Thus far the differences between Python 3.8 and 3.10 have not necessitated that I match my environments exactly. However, I am now forced to use a poorly maintained Python library in my code (provided by a payment gateway), and I encountered version-specific bugs with the library immediately after installing it. Needless to say, I am not confident that if I get it working in the development environment, it will work in the production environment as well. I need to be sure it works in production the first time.
I believe I have managed to successfully install Python 3.8 from source on my development system (without uninstalling Python 3.10). I managed to set up the virtualenv with the older version of Python successfully as well. The installation of requirements, however, fails with /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_python: No such file or directory during the installation of the pgmagick package. My understanding of the error is that I am missing the libboost_python-dev package for Python v3.8.
How can I install the older libboost_python-dev package on ubuntu 22.04?
