Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 14, just installed from DVD today for the sole purpose of running BOINC. I have BOINC client and manager installed and my computer is happily running SETI at home.

However, I am trying to have the cool graphical screen saver run, so I installed xscreensaver and followed the configuration as per the BOINC instructions (boincscr -root).

When I try run it, Ubuntu cannot find the boincscr file and the screen saver doesn't run. I've tried to find boincscr and it doesn't seem to be on the machine. I can't find a package for it either.

Any ideas on how I can get this screen saver thing working in Ubuntu?

Thanks,
Brian

It seems that boinc package in ubuntu repositories doesn't include the boincscr file. boincscr is included in the archive, which can be downloaded here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
I've copied the boincscr file from the archive to /etc/bin/ and it works for some projects now (at least for Einshtein@home).
But it doesn't work for seti@home, and here they write that it won't: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=8727&postid=51595#51595