A quick test, taken from the boost documentation:

 #include <boost/lambda/lambda.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <iterator> #include <algorithm> int main() {      using namespace boost::lambda;      typedef std::istream_iterator<int> in;      std::for_each(         in(std::cin), in(), std::cout << (_1 * 3) << " " ); } 

To test this:

 $ g++ -o boost boost.cpp $ echo 1 2 3 | ./boost 3 6 9 

The test is really whether it finds the headers OK at compile time.

On Ubuntu the packages are split up and so we can get away with just installing libboost-math-dev and libboost-doc .