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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ interested in running musikbox on a raspberry pi, connected to you home stereo?
 
 - grab the [Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx) and install the 32-bit c++ compiler, plus the "v140" tools package.
 - clone the musikcube sources: `git clone https://github.com/clangen/musikcube.git`
-- install the [32 bit version of boost 1.60](https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0-msvc-14.0-32.exe/download). ensure it shares the same parent directory with musikcube. e.g: `c:\src\musikcube` and `c:\src\boost_1_60_0` -- the project's solution will reference it via relative path.
+- install the [32 bit version of boost 1.64](https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.64.0_b2/boost_1_64_0_b2-msvc-14.1-32.exe/download). ensure it shares the same parent directory with musikcube. e.g: `c:\src\musikcube` and `c:\src\boost_1_64_0_b2` -- the project's solution will reference it via relative path.
 - open `musikcube.sln` and build/run. 
 
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