diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 830b615c..4f3af58f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ elseif(APPLE)
    find_package(Boost 1.79.0 REQUIRED)
 else()
    # Note that header-only libraries don't have a component
-   find_package(Boost 1.79.0 REQUIRED COMPONENTS stacktrace_backtrace)
+   find_package(Boost REQUIRED)
 endif()
 include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 # Uncomment the next two lines if you want to find where Boost headers and DLLs are on your system
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f7dc861b..594fdeed 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -406,13 +406,8 @@ qtTestRunnerDependencies = dependency('qt5', version : '>=5.9.5', modules: ['Tes
 # For Boost, per https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html#boost, we only need to supply module names for libraries we
 # need to link against.  For the header-only Boost libraries, the 'boost' dependency suffices.
 boostModules = []
-if host_machine.system() == 'linux'
-   boostModules += 'stacktrace_backtrace'
-   add_global_arguments('-DBOOST_STACKTRACE_LINK', language : 'cpp')
-   add_global_arguments('-DBOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_BACKTRACE', language : 'cpp')
-endif
 boostDependency = dependency('boost',
-                             version : '>=1.79.0',
+                             version : '>=1.78.0',
                              modules : boostModules,
                              static : true)
 message('Boost:', boostDependency.name(), 'found =', boostDependency.found(), 'version =', boostDependency.version())
@@ -468,12 +463,12 @@ endif
 
 # Note that, unlike, say, the parameters to include_directories(), the dirs argument to find_library() must be absolute
 # paths
-libbacktraceDir = join_paths(meson.project_source_root(), 'third-party/libbacktrace/.libs')
-backtraceDependency = compiler.find_library('backtrace',
-                                            required : true,
-                                            static : true,
-                                            dirs : [libbacktraceDir])
-
+#libbacktraceDir = join_paths(meson.project_source_root(), 'third-party/libbacktrace/.libs')
+#backtraceDependency = compiler.find_library('backtrace',
+#                                            required : true,
+#                                            static : true,
+#                                            dirs : [libbacktraceDir])
+#
 #======================================== Find the other libraries we depend on ========================================
 #
 # See https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_returned_dep.html for what info we can pull from a dependency object
@@ -1086,9 +1081,9 @@ generatedFromMocForUnitTests = qt.compile_moc(headers : unitTestMocHeaders,
 #
 # We make a point here of displaying the output of run_command because we want to show message emitted by lupdate about
 # what it did.
-message('Running lupdate on the following ts files:', run_command('ls', translationSourceFiles, check: true).stdout())
+message('Running lupdate-qt5 on the following ts files:', run_command('ls', translationSourceFiles, check: true).stdout())
 message(
-   run_command('lupdate',
+   run_command('lupdate-qt5',
                meson.project_source_root() + '/src',
                meson.project_source_root() + '/ui',
                '-ts',
@@ -1110,8 +1105,7 @@ commonDependencies = [qtCommonDependencies,
                       xercesDependency,
                       xalanDependency,
                       boostDependency,
-                      dlDependency,
-                      backtraceDependency]
+                      dlDependency]
 mainExeDependencies = commonDependencies + qtMainExeDependencies
 testRunnerDependencies = commonDependencies + qtTestRunnerDependencies