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 Nebula builds with ROS 2 Galactic and Humble.
 
+> **Note**
+>
+> Boost version 1.74.0 or later is required. A manual install may be required in Ubuntu versions earlier than 22.04.
+
 > **Note**
 >
 > A [TCP enabled version of ROS' Transport Driver](https://github.com/mojomex/transport_drivers/tree/mutable-buffer-in-udp-callback) is required to use Nebula.
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@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Please see the [ROS 2 documentation](https://docs.ros.org/en/humble/index.html)
 
 ## Getting the source and building
 
+> **Note**
+>
+> Boost version 1.74.0 or later is required. A manual install may be required in Ubuntu versions earlier than 22.04.
+
 > **Note**
 >
 > A [TCP enabled version of ROS' Transport Driver](https://github.com/mojomex/transport_drivers/tree/mutable-buffer-in-udp-callback) is required to use Nebula.