Hello everyone,

I downloaded..

http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_ubuntu_5.10.45_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

..hoping there was a nice manual command line way of installing it on Fedora Core 6. I am new enough on linux that I do not know what this command line syntax would be and am hoping someone here can assist me with it. ;)

I would like a GUI to see but I wonder if because I am running Fedora Core 6 that I must run..

http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_5.10.45_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

..command line only package? Thanks for any and all input.

- Knight

You can try the Ubuntu build. Works on Fedora 7 and 8. It doesn't look like it's in the repositories for FC6 (it was recently added as a package).

There are two general ways of installing. One is to just run it out of a directory in your own account. To do this, save the .sh to your desktop or somewhere in your home directory. Open a shell window. Navigate to where ever you save the .sh and unpack it using sh followed by the name of the file (ignore the version number in my example).

[kathryn@Galaxy ~]$ sh boinc_ubuntu_6.1.17_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
use /home/Kathryn/BOINC/run_manager to start BOINC

Then you change to that directory.

[kathryn@Galaxy ~]$ cd BOINC

Then you start the manager with

[kathryn@Galaxy ~]$ ./run_manager


My biggest problem with this method is that if you close either the shell or the manager, BOINC shuts down. I'm not versed enough to really understand how this works, but I think you can put the client into the background and start the manager in one step by doing

[kathryn@Galaxy ~]$ ./run_client & ./run_manager

Eric's instructions are slightly different but accomplish the same thing.



You're other option is to install it as a system daemon. Eric Myers has written excellent instructions. I followed them as an absolute noob and had little problem with the procedure.



If you pretty much want to set it and forget it, follow the daemon install instructions. It looks complicated at first, but if you take it step by step, it isn't so bad.

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Kathryn :o)

[kathryn@Galaxy ~]$ ./run_client & ./run_manager

./run_client --daemon; ./run_manager

That way the client won't quit if the shell quits, and log will go to a file.

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Thank you so much everyone! Especially to you Kathryn.. that was a nice opener. I am going to try what you said along with Nicolas's small syntax update. As soon as Fedora 9 comes out (in 4 days! ;~)) I'm going to swap boxes and install it fresh and enjoy me some new BOINC goodness amongst other things. ;)

Thank you again everone! ;)

- K