Improving wording related to Boost library requirements [updated]

Fixed formatting as requested on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7589

Description:
Documentation was unclear in this section and could be interpreted to mean that boost was not a hard requirement for older Ubuntu versions.
Related: #7587
pull/7590/head
Jonathan Cross 9 years ago
parent 317462123f
commit 8c5a5fb850

@ -67,15 +67,17 @@ Build requirements:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils
On at least Ubuntu 14.04+ and Debian 7+ there are generic names for the
Options when installing required Boost library files:
1. On at least Ubuntu 14.04+ and Debian 7+ there are generic names for the
individual boost development packages, so the following can be used to only
install necessary parts of boost:
sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev
If that doesn't work, you can install all boost development packages with:
2. If that doesn't work, you can install all boost development packages with:
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
BerkeleyDB is required for the wallet. db4.8 packages are available [here](https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin).
You can add the repository and install using the following commands:

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