Compiling Boost 1.55 in CentOS 6

Fast:

1. EPEL repository
2. Updated system
3. yum groupinstall "Development tools"
4. yum install boost*
5. yum remove boost* (last two steps to get initial dependencies)
6. yum install libicu libicu-devel zlib-devel zlib python-devel bzip2-devel texinfo
7. Download tarball of boost_1_55 and extract
8. /bootstrap.sh --with-icu
9. ./b2 -d0 -a

Or you can use my RPM packages for CentOS: http://repo.enetres.net/x86_64/

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