<p>I'm considering dumping boost as a dependency... atm the only thing that I really need is <code>shared_ptr&lt;&gt;</code>, and I can get that from <code>std::tr1</code>, available in gcc suite 4.*</p>

[{'answer_id': 62644, 'author': 'UnkwnTech', 'author_id': 115, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/115', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>No, on my debian systems I have to install it.  But any half-decent system admin should be able to figure out how to install it.</p>\n\n<p>Edit: to be specific it is not always installed by default, but it should be available for most every distro.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 62691, 'author': 'dwilkins', 'author_id': 6728, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6728', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>It\'s available on Fedora, installable via "yum" if you didn\'t pick "Development System" as  your default install set.  "yum search gcc" to get the package to install.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 62848, 'author': 'Jonathan', 'author_id': 7099, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7099', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>These days, I believe most Linux distros do not ship with the development system by default. But I'm pretty sure g++ v4 is the 'standard' development C++ compiler if you install the C++ development environment at all. g++ v3 is usually just available as a special install. For openSUSE 11, gcc 4.3 is the current package installed when you pick the Base Development pattern.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 62884, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>That depends on what you mean by <em>ship</em>? If you download and burn a CD or DVD, it will almost certainly be available, but not necessarily installed by default.  Some distros (e.g. Fedora) allow choices during the install which will install development tools, but a default install generally does not include them.  They are easily installed using whatever package management system the distro supports.  Ubuntu includes a package called <strong>build-essential</strong> which installs gcc, g++, make, etc. so <strong>apt-get install build-essential</strong> is the first step for doing development on Ubuntu.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 63667, 'author': 'dwilkins', 'author_id': 6728, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/6728', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>AFAIK, all of the distros package V 4.+ nowadays.</p>\n'}]
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