Prep Ubuntu 12.04 (Travis-CI) to build with GCC 4.8 and Boost 1.57

gistfile1.txt

# first update sudoers for the current user, run: sudo visudo
# append the line: username ALL = NOPASSWD : ALL

# suppress hash errors by removing files from this dir
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gcc g++ git
sudo apt-get install -y curl
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-software-properties
sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libcppunit-dev

# GCC 4.8
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y g++-4.8

sudo rm -f /usr/bin/g++
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/gcc
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/gcov
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.8 /usr/bin/g++
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 /usr/bin/gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcov-4.8 /usr/bin/gcov

# boost
cd ~
mkdir Downloads
cd Downloads
curl http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.57.0/boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2 -O
tar xvfj boost_1_57_0.tar.bz2
pushd boost_1_57_0
./bootstrap.sh
sudo ./b2 install -j 2 --prefix=/usr link=static
popd

# nodejs
curl https://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.40/node-v0.10.40-linux-x64.tar.gz -O
tar xvfz node-v0.10.40-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mv node-v0.10.40-linux-x64 /usr/local
sudo ln -s /usr/local/node-v0.10.40-linux-x64/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
sudo ln -s /usr/local/node-v0.10.40-linux-x64/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/npm

# python pip
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O
sudo python get-pip.py

# ruby
#curl https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.2/ruby-2.2.3.tar.gz -O
#tar xvfz ruby-2.2.3.tar.gz
#pushd ruby-2.2.3
#./configure
#make -j 2
#sudo make install
#popd
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm install 1.9.3