I am trying to compile and install graph-tool version 2.26 in ubuntu using ./configure but I am getting following error checking for boostlib >= 1.55.0 (105500)... yes checking whether the Boost::Python library is available... yes checking whether boost_python is the correct library... no checking whether boost_python-py27 is the correct library... no checking whether boost_python-py27 is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python-py27 is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python-py35 is the correct library... no checking whether boost_python-py35 is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python-py35 is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python is the correct library... (cached) no checking whether boost_python3 is the correct library... no configure: error: No usable boost::python found I have tried ./configure --with-python-boost=no but have obtained the same error ... I have also added the config.log if that helps