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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+
+# Mainly aiming Travis CI's Ubuntu machines for now
+# see what we need: http://thrift.apache.org/docs/install/ubuntu
+
+
+# General dependencies
+sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted" -y
+sudo apt-get update -qq
+sudo apt-get install -qq libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev libevent-dev automake libtool flex bison pkg-config g++ libssl-dev make libqt4-dev git debhelper bc 
+dpkg -S /usr/include/boost/version.hpp