diff --git a/DSView/CMakeLists.txt b/DSView/CMakeLists.txt
index 6090cfb1..e696d0cf 100755
--- a/DSView/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/DSView/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ endif()
 find_package(Threads)
 
 find_package(PythonLibs 3 EXACT)
-find_package(Boost 1.42 COMPONENTS filesystem system thread REQUIRED)
+find_package(Boost 1.42 REQUIRED)
 find_package(libusb-1.0 REQUIRED)
 find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED)
 find_package(libzip REQUIRED)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ab2074b7..a4782260 100755
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ Requirements
 	This is part of the standard OpenBSD install (not an extra package), apparently.
  - libboost >= 1.42 (including the following libs):
     - libboost-system
-    - libboost-thread
  - pkg-config >= 0.22
 	This is part of the standard OpenBSD install (not an extra package), apparently.
  - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ please check your respective distro's package manager tool if you use other dist
 Debian/Ubuntu:
  $ sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential cmake autoconf automake libtool pkg-config \
    libglib2.0-dev libzip-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev \
-   python3-dev qt5-default libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev check libfftw3-dev
+   python3-dev qt5-default libboost-dev libboost-test-dev check libfftw3-dev
 
 Fedora (18, 19):
  $ sudo yum install git gcc g++ make cmake autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig glib2-devel \