Upgrading BOINC under Ubuntu

Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Upgrading BOINC under Ubuntu

Author	Message
M0CZY Send message Joined: 24 Jul 04 Posts: 7 Credit: 223 RAC: 0	Message 965867 - Posted: 25 Jan 2010, 14:17:38 UTC
	I am using Ubuntu 9.04, and have installed BOINC from the Ubuntu repository, version 6.2.18. Is there an easy way to upgrade this to a newer version? ____________ One punch says a thousand words.
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Evangelos Katikos Send message Joined: 18 Oct 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 82,306,068 RAC: 7,256	Message 965870 - Posted: 25 Jan 2010, 14:27:33 UTC - in response to Message 965867. Last modified: 25 Jan 2010, 14:28:32 UTC
	Yes. Completely uninstall it and go to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php to get a newer version and install it to your HOME directory. ____________
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M0CZY Send message Joined: 24 Jul 04 Posts: 7 Credit: 223 RAC: 0	Message 966613 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 10:17:04 UTC - in response to Message 965870.
	That isn't really what I had in mind. I don't really want to use the Berkeley installer, I like having BOINC installed via the Synaptic package management system. What I wanted to know was, can I update my installation manually by replacing the BOINC binaries (boinc, boinccmd and boincmgr) with newer versions, and what other files would also need to be replaced? If I upgraded like this would my BOINC work correctly? I suppose the ideal solution would be if the version in the Ubuntu repository was upgraded to a later version. I wonder who is responsible for doing it, and why they haven't bothered about updating it? ____________ One punch says a thousand words.
	ID: 966613 ·

Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3101 Credit: 344,452 RAC: 101	Message 966615 - Posted: 29 Jan 2010, 10:28:58 UTC - in response to Message 966613.
	Since you already have a version 6.x BOINC installed, it should work as you've planned (replacing the executables). Slight problems could arise if you are using CUDA devices to crunch. Gruß, Gundolf ____________ Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz) SETI@home classic workunits 3,758 SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours
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Dotsch Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 835,110 RAC: 17	Message 967028 - Posted: 30 Jan 2010, 20:01:13 UTC - in response to Message 965870.
	There is no newer BOINC client in the Ubuntu repositories. - The Ubuntu peoples are responsible to update BOINC in the repositories. I recommend you, as the others has written, to update to the offical BOINC release.
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