I would like to knoe to to install the boinc software in ubuntu feisty fawn version 7.04. I used to use the old software from seti in my windows computer. Now that I use linux I have not been able to continue contributing with seti porject. please help.

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I would like to knoe to to install the boinc software in ubuntu feisty fawn version 7.04. I used to use the old software from seti in my windows computer. Now that I use linux I have not been able to continue contributing with seti porject. please help.

Well, I should state that I don't run Ubuntu, nor would I ever. However, there is a Debian package of boinc. Have you tried "apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager"?. That's what I came up with after a quick Google. You should try it sometime. ;)

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Neil

Hi,

I've got it running under Ubuntu 7.04.

Using the firefox browser, I just went to the main BOINC website, and clicked on the link to download boinc software.

It automatically picked up on the fact that I'm running linux, and I downloaded the linux version of the client.

I then opened a command line terminal and ran the downloaded file.

(I had to run "chmod u+x" on the downloaded .sh file first to make it executable.)

I then ran the downloaded file, and that extracted the boinc programs into a directory called BOINC.

Once extracted, I ran the "run_manager" program as instructed. It then ran just as the Windows version does,

Regards.

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Hi,

I've got it running under Ubuntu 7.04.

Using the firefox browser, I just went to the main BOINC website, and clicked on the link to download boinc software.

It automatically picked up on the fact that I'm running linux, and I downloaded the linux version of the client.

I then opened a command line terminal and ran the downloaded file.

(I had to run "chmod u+x" on the downloaded .sh file first to make it executable.)

I then ran the downloaded file, and that extracted the boinc programs into a directory called BOINC.

Once extracted, I ran the "run_manager" program as instructed. It then ran just as the Windows version does,

Regards.

Thats my experience too. Googled my eyeballs out, but I can't get a clear picture how to auto-start it. I had tried to start it from a desktop icon, but it was unable to connect to localhost. Not that starting it from shell is any real problem. It's a convenience thing.

As far as I can work out, I need a script in init.d. I've little experience of scripts tho'. Can someone point me in he right direction?

Regards, Wheelie

Thats my experience too. Googled my eyeballs out, but I can't get a clear picture how to auto-start it. I had tried to start it from a desktop icon, but it was unable to connect to localhost. Not that starting it from shell is any real problem. It's a convenience thing.

As far as I can work out, I need a script in init.d. I've little experience of scripts tho'. Can someone point me in he right direction?

Regards, Wheelie

Hi,

I havent yet set this up myself. (I'm using a desktop icon, which is more appropriate for my persoinal usage of BOINC).

I agree you need a script in /etc/init.d to autostart it at boot time (the "boinc" service that is - as opposed to the GUI manager "run_manager")

I don't know if you've seen this page yet

http://www.gaztronics.net/rc/boinc.php

which contains some instructions and an example script

http://www.gaztronics.net/rc/boinc.txt

(You just need to set the variable BOINC_DIR to point to your BOINC directory, by modifying the script).

You'll still have to run the manager manually, but you should find that after doing the above you will no longer get "unable to connect" errors, because the boinc service will have already started by the time you click on any desktop shortcuts pointing to run_manager.

In other words, boinc will already be running from boot time regardless of if/when you decide to launch the GUI manager.

The above was writen for Redhat, but should be OK for Ubuntu I guess (forgive me, I'm not 100% sure, as I'm normally a SUSE linux user), but it don't see why it wouldn't,

HTH, cheers, benkid

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After Downloading the file to (home/{insert your username here}/, I used Thunar (it's like winblows explorer), right clicked on the install file, clicked on the permissions tab and selected run as executable.

It really didn't seem to do anything at first, but then I found a BOINK directory. Right clicked separately on the client file as well as the mgr file checking the permissions, setting them as necessary to run as executable.

I went to terminal and typed: {insert path to bonic file} boinc -daemon so that the client would run in the background. You can execute the file if needed, then you can attach to the project as outlined on the SETI home page.

I am not sure if running as a background process is working. I have dragged the icon to the quick launch bar for both the client and the mgr. I click the client first (nothing visual happens) then click the manager icon. It then shows my project.

Rodney

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Did anyone try what Neil Walker said a few posts back?
You'd be surprised. ;)

I did a 'dry run' using the apt-get line he gave and it suggested I add 'boinc-app-seti' - so here's a full dry-run under Feisty.
Nothing gets installed; it's just testing if it would install Ok: drop the -s to actually install it all.

$ sudo apt-get -s install boinc-client boinc-manager boinc-app-seti
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
boinc-app-seti boinc-client boinc-manager
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst boinc-client (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Inst boinc-app-seti (5.13+cvs20060510-1ubuntu1 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Inst boinc-manager (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Conf boinc-client (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Conf boinc-app-seti (5.13+cvs20060510-1ubuntu1 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Conf boinc-manager (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)

Oh look - it works perfectly...

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To err is human; to moo, bovine.

Did anyone try what Neil Walker said a few posts back?
You'd be surprised. ;)

I did a 'dry run' using the apt-get line he gave and it suggested I add 'boinc-app-seti' - so here's a full dry-run under Feisty.
Nothing gets installed; it's just testing if it would install Ok: drop the -s to actually install it all.

$ sudo apt-get -s install boinc-client boinc-manager boinc-app-seti
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
boinc-app-seti boinc-client boinc-manager
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst boinc-client (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Inst boinc-app-seti (5.13+cvs20060510-1ubuntu1 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Inst boinc-manager (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Conf boinc-client (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Conf boinc-app-seti (5.13+cvs20060510-1ubuntu1 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)
Conf boinc-manager (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty)

Oh look - it works perfectly...

Yes, but does it auto run AND will the BONIC screensaver show up when you run the System>>Preferences>>>Screensaver app?

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Yes, but does it auto run AND will the BONIC screensaver show up when you run the System>>Preferences>>>Screensaver app?

Er, well why not install it and find out? ;)

The 'completeness' of the ready-rolled package installations performed on/by Feisty seem to be pretty good from what I've seen so far, so I'd say you'll likely find what you need - probably with any Feisty-specific documentation installed too.
But if not, there are previous posts here explaining what to do and links to other sites also.
Sometimes you need to just roll up your sleeves and do a spot of reading - but at least you'll end up understanding how to auto-start things, and along the way discover related stuff like finding out if a process is running.

BTW: the screensaver hasn't been implemented in the Linux ports. See previous posts.

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To err is human; to moo, bovine.