# GPlates source release fails to even configure

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/gplates-source-release-fails-to-even-configure/370
**Category:** Q&A
**Created:** [30 August 2021 18:57 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/gplates-source-release-fails-to-even-configure/370 "2021-08-30T18:57:33Z")
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### Author: ![mrobsidy](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@mrobsidy](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/mrobsidy)
#### Post date: [30 August 2021 18:57 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/gplates-source-release-fails-to-even-configure/370/1 "2021-08-30T18:57:33Z")

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GPlates keeps failing to configure due to the boost system library missing. I’ve spent 7 hours on this today, set the -DBOOST thing, no avail. I cannot downgrade libboost (my version is 1.76.0) because my system package manager depends on it and downgrading it would break my system. It finds boost\_python3 and all other modules, but boost\_system reliably fails. Is there a way to fix this?

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### Author: ![john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@john.cannon](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/john.cannon)
#### Post date: [31 August 2021 01:47 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/gplates-source-release-fails-to-even-configure/370/2 "2021-08-31T01:47:22Z")

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Hi mrobsidy,

Have you tried the source code mentioned in [this post](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/compilation-failed-with-werror-uninitialized/322/2) or are you using the source from the public 2.2 release? If you’ve tried the former then can you send your configure error message (and what system you’re running on)?