Cinder on Linux - the newb frontier... ( moved from old forum )

Hi I have another basic question. I noticed @paul.houx comment about the the CPP Rest library in another thread:

So, I’m trying to build it but getting an error related to Boost on my machine. The funny part is, I noticed that the Boost files that were being used were in the Cinder subdirectories, even though I’m not actually trying to build a Cinder app currently. Did I do something wrong when I installed Cinder, and is it possible to fix things to look at the system’s copy of Boost instead while trying to build the CPP Rest SDK in case that fixes the error? Pic related: