title: Setting up linked libraries on Linux
body: <p>Developing on linux is new for me, and I'm having trouble setting up the environment. I have a relatively small program which relies on the following libs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-lboost_date_time -lboost_regex -lmysqlclient -lmysqlcppconn -lexpat
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using eclipse on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. What do I need to do with the package manager, and inside eclipse to successfully compile? I was told to use <code>sudo apt-get libboost*</code>, but that prints a whole army of conflicts and then comes to the saddening conclusion:</p>
  
  <pre><code>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I believe I installed <code>libmysqlcppconn-dev</code>, and <code>libexpat1-dev</code> correctly.
  The only thing I've done in eclipse, is added the -l stuff to the linkers library settings.</p>
  
  <p>So in conclusion, the OS and the IDE are both new to me, I would appreciate detailed help.</p>
  
  <p>Dump from the terminal below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>libboost-dev is already the newest version.
  libboost-iostreams1.46.1 is already the newest version.
  libboost-iostreams1.46.1 set to manually installed.
  libboost-serialization1.46.1 is already the newest version.
  libboost-serialization1.46.1 set to manually installed.
  libboost1.46-dev is already the newest version.
  libboost1.46-dev set to manually installed.
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libboost-date-time1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-date-time1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-filesystem1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-filesystem1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-graph-parallel1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-graph-parallel1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-graph1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-graph1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-iostreams1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-iostreams1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-math1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-math1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-mpi-python1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-mpi-python1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-mpi-python1.48.0 : Conflicts: libboost-mpi-python1.46.1 but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-mpi1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-mpi1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-program-options1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-program-options1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-python1.46-dev : Depends: python-dev but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-python1.48-dev : Depends: python-dev but it is not going to be installed
                             Conflicts: libboost-python1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-regex1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-regex1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-serialization1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-serialization1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-signals1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-signals1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-system1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-system1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-test1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-test1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-thread1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-thread1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost-wave1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost-wave1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost1.48-dbg : Conflicts: libboost1.46-dbg but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost1.48-dev : Conflicts: libboost1.46-dev but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
   libboost1.48-doc : Conflicts: libboost1.46-doc but 1.46.1-7ubuntu3 is to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  </code></pre>