I am using boost-thread in my application. When I deploy this application on a client machine (running Ubuntu 11.10), I need to make sure that libboost_thread.so is available on the machine. However, when I run "apt-get install libboost-thread1.46," it seems to pull in the whole development enviornment (libgcc, libbost1.46-dev, etc.). This machine needs just the runtime environment, not the development environment. I am wondering if there is a better way to handle this.
No such package exception: The package "libboost-thread1.46" does not exist on Ubuntu, is treated by apt-get as a regular expression, and the development package also matches the expression. The two candidate packages are named libboost-thread1.46-dev and libboost-thread1.46.1, where the latter is the package you want. It depends only on three libraries (libgcc, libc, libstdc++), all of which you need to deploy anyway because your program and libboost-thread link against them.
So, deploy by installing libboost-thread1.46.1 and everything should be fine.