title: getting Boost working in centos 5.5
body: <p>This sounds like it should be simple, but it is proving to be impossible to accomplish.</p>
  
  <p>I installed with the following command:</p>
  
  <p>sudo yum install boost boost-devel boost-doc</p>
  
  <p>Then, I started to added the following to my header file</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;boost/filesystem.hpp&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I promptly got the following error:</p>
  
  <p>error: boost/filesystem.hpp: No such file or directory</p>
  
  <p>I know that boost is partially working because when I use this header:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;boost/lambda/lambda.hpp&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i don't get compilation issues.</p>
  
  <p>I know that I need to somehow build certain libraries like filesystem</p>
  
  <p>However, I have not been able to find instructions anywhere on the entire internet for how to do this for CentOS 5.  There is no bootstrap.sh or ./bjam for me to use.</p>