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Upgrading BOINC under Ubuntu
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M0CZY Send message Joined: 24 Jul 04 Posts: 7 Credit: 223 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Evangelos Katikos Send message Joined: 18 Oct 99 Posts: 17 Credit: 101,612,081 RAC: 0 |
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. |
M0CZY Send message Joined: 24 Jul 04 Posts: 7 Credit: 223 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
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 |
Dotsch Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 919,393 RAC: 0 |
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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