##---------------Downloaded tar from http://www.boost.org/ to the path /usr/local/src/
cd /usr/local/src/
sudo tar zxvf <boost tar file>
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#---------------included these in .bashrc

############ Python exports ##################
export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/";

############ RDKit configuration ###############
export BOOST="/usr/local/src/boost_1_64_0/"

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source .bashrc
cd $BOOST
./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=python,regex,thread,serialization
./b2
./b2 install