Hi

Decided that this must be a library thing outside ROS that ROS needs, 
this site confirmed thinking: http://www.boost.org

Had previously added:
bjam
boost-build
So now added:
libboost-all-dev

Success, with one warning. Now decided to remove all of the above and 
try again with just libboost-all-dev removing all first.

rm -rf ~/ros
apt-get install libboost-all-dev
~/rosinstall -n ~/ros http://ros.org/rosinstalls/latest_base.rosinstall
rosmake --no-rosdep rostest


So now decided to try with -n

rm -rf ~/ros
apt-get install libboost-all-dev
~/rosinstall ~/ros http://ros.org/rosinstalls/latest_base.rosinstall

Success

Thanks


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Mark Worsdall