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from Dietmar Kühl.</li>
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<h2><a name="Download">Download</a></h2>
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-<p>You may <a href="../boost_all.zip">download all of boost</a> as a single ZIP
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-file. As many boost headers include other boost headers, installing one at
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-at time is painful. This is a first try at making installation easier. </p>
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-<p>If you don't already have a ZIP file decoder, download one from the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/">Info-ZIP</a>
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-web site.</p>
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+<h3>.zip file</h3>
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+<p>You may <a href="../boost_all.zip">download all of boost</a> as a single
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+boost_all.zip file. As many boost headers include other boost headers, installing one at
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+at time is painful. This is a first try at making installation easier.</p>
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+<p>If you don't already have a .zip file decoder, download one from the <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/">Info-ZIP</a>
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+web site. The .zip format is used for distribution because there are free
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+decoders and encoders available for many, many different platforms. Many commercial
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+compress/archive utilities also support this format.</p>
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+<p>Hint: A Linux user reports his decoder first required renaming boost_all.zip
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+to boost_all.ZIP.</p>
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+<h3>CVS archive</h3>
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+<p>For those who have CVS installed, the libraries can also be downloaded from
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+the public CVS repository. The general procedure goes something like this:</p>
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+<blockquote>
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+ <pre>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost login
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+ [Hit <return> when it asks for a password]
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+cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost checkout boost
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+cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost logout</pre>
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+</blockquote>
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<h2>Installing Boost Libraries</h2>
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