CMake is not able to find BOOST libraries

Try to complete cmake process with following libs:

sudo apt-get install cmake libblkid-dev e2fslibs-dev libboost-all-dev libaudit-dev

I'm using this to set up boost from cmake in my CMakeLists.txt. Try something similar (make sure to update paths to your installation of boost).

SET (BOOST_ROOT "/opt/boost/boost_1_57_0")SET (BOOST_INCLUDEDIR "/opt/boost/boost-1.57.0/include")SET (BOOST_LIBRARYDIR "/opt/boost/boost-1.57.0/lib")SET (BOOST_MIN_VERSION "1.55.0")set (Boost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE ON)FIND_PACKAGE(Boost ${BOOST_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED)if (NOT Boost_FOUND)  message(FATAL_ERROR "Fatal error: Boost (version >= 1.55) required.")else()  message(STATUS "Setting up BOOST")  message(STATUS " Includes - ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}")  message(STATUS " Library  - ${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS}")  include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})  link_directories(${Boost_LIBRARY_DIRS})endif (NOT Boost_FOUND)

This will either search default paths (/usr, /usr/local) or the path provided through the cmake variables (BOOST_ROOT, BOOST_INCLUDEDIR, BOOST_LIBRARYDIR). It works for me on cmake > 2.6.

I got the same error the first time I wanted to install LightGBM on python (GPU version).

You can simply fix it with this command line :

sudo apt-get install cmake libblkid-dev e2fslibs-dev libboost-all-dev libaudit-dev

the boost libraries will be installed and you'll be fine to continue your installation process.