Issue
We have a Linux (CentOS) system with Boost 1.66. We need to have Boost 1.53 installed instead. I think it's wise to uninstall Boost 1.66 first and then install 1.53.
I've found dozens of ways to uninstall Boost with wget, but we don't have wget. We have yum, and yum is largely a mystery to me. Is there a way to uninstall Boost using yum?
Solution
This is interesting. I have a centos 7 system and if I was to install it from the standard repository I would get 1.53.
If you know that boost is not required for any other package then yum erase boost is how you do it. Then yum install boost-1.53, or something along those lines, assuming it is still available in the repo you are using.
I don't know how you intend to use it, but it is relatively easy to have multiple versions of boost on one system. You can compile it yourself and then install the libraries and include files in directories that are not in the standard path the compiler and loader are looking for. Then you just need to specify these locations when you compile your code.
Answered By - Alain Answer Checked By - Katrina (WPSolving Volunteer)
