Hello,

I am relatively new to the BOINC/SETI@HOME community on Linux/Debian and have a quick question. I used the debian package installer to install, but gave found that all the support files are in my home directory, pretty much making a mess of it. Is there any way to move the files to a separate directory? Even if I have to reinstall it would be worth it to have a clean and organized home directory again! Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Hi!

I'm new to Seti@HOME, and was hit with the same problem. I believe, that as currently, boincmgr puts all the file in the current working directory - which is messy and definitely not the Linux way.

That being said, I believe Seti@Home can't do anythhing for this problem as it is an upstream boinc issue (I really believe they should store all files in $HOME/.boinc, or $HOME/.config/boinc etc. in *nix platforms).

As a workdaround, create a folder and run boinc in there (you can probably create a shortcut to run boinc and set a working folder there) - but this should really be unnecessary.

xm. maybe is good then to deinstall that distro-specific boinc version, and download one original from
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

put downloaded file in your home dir, and run it ( by making it executable, or by
sh _downloadedfile.sh

it very quickly build in your home dir catalog BOINC, where is all need files and environment - i think, it is a good unix-way.

What the original file only does, is to create a directory "BOINC" with shell scripts and the pre-built binaries (and skin files etc.). The shell scripts created just changes the working directory, and runs the binary - same could be easily done by hand (with distribution-specific binaries). For example, this is what I get in run_manager (after runnning in the dir /home/ville/usr/src/boinc/):

cd "/home/ville/usr/src/boinc/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@