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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Komodo is based on Zcash and has been extended by our innovative consensus algor
 
 ```shell
 #The following packages are needed:
-sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python python-zmq zlib1g-dev wget libcurl4-gnutls-dev bsdmainutils automake curl libboost-dev
+sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python python-zmq zlib1g-dev wget libcurl4-gnutls-dev bsdmainutils automake curl
 ```
 
 ### Build Komodo