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LeoTorjeman
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hello,
i installed boinc according to the manual and when i try to attach a program i get the following: leo@leo-desktop:~/Desktop/BOINC$ ./boinc -attach_project bash: ./boinc: No such file or directory how to fix it? also is there a way to work in ubuntu on the same boinc graphical interface as windows? thanks, Leo |
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Former Member
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You should be able to get BOINC out of the repositories via the package manager or apt-get. It's an old version though (I think 5.4.x with the current release from Berkeley being 5.8.16).
There are also instructions for installing here http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/help/boinc/unix.html The daemon instructions work on Fedora 7 and should be fine for Ubuntu (I haven't done it in Ubuntu yet) but the personal install instructions need a bit of revising (I'm working with Eric on this). The repository route should install the GUI for you. And the daemon install definitely will. You'll just have to run the manager after you start the core client. Good luck! |
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Bryn
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i installed boinc according to the manual and when i try to attach a program (...) Just install it using the Ubuntu repository. Here's a full dry-run under Feisty. Nothing gets installed with this; it's just testing if it would install Ok so to actually install it, don't include the -s switch. $ sudo apt-get -s install boinc-client boinc-manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: boinc-app-seti The following NEW packages will be installed boinc-client boinc-manager 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Inst boinc-client (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty) Inst boinc-manager (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty) Conf boinc-client (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty) Conf boinc-manager (5.4.11-5 Ubuntu:7.04/feisty) $ You may get additional packages pulled down, depending on what you already have installed. The seti@home application is suggested because that's the only BOINC-related project available from the Feisty repository, but with the BOINC manager framework in place it should be easy enough to hook into whatever project(s) you want to run. If you want to run seti@home then just append boinc-app-seti to the apt-get line. (also, try to avoid installing applications to your Desktop)
To err is human; to moo, bovine.
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LeoTorjeman
Cruncher Joined: Dec 1, 2005 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
ok i installed it.
thanks. is there a gui for boinc? also i get this when i start it: 2007-10-08 17:15:26 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:26 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:27 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-10-08 17:15:27 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:27 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:28 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-10-08 17:15:28 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:28 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:29 [---] Local control only allowed 2007-10-08 17:15:29 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 2007-10-08 17:15:29 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1 gstate.init() failed: -180 |
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Former Member
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I am actually interested in the first problem. The 'No such file or directory' error happened to me on a server version of Ubuntu, but not on a desktop install (it also happened when using chroot to the server install from the desktop). It would be nice to be able to use the standalone client in some situations.
Also, when trying to attach a project (I believe with boinc or boinc_cmd --attach_project [BOINC Project URL] [BOINC Account Key] ) it prints out about 30 copies of the same unhelpful error message and exits. Does anybody know how to do this correctly? |
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Bryn
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is there a gui for boinc? Yes - just click on the KDE menu button (like the 'Start' button in that other OS) and select Utilities|BOINC Manager from the menu. That should avoid the error messages you're getting. The BOINC startup stuff is added during installation to /etc/init.d so that will handle the client startup/shutdown etc. for you (the client is started immediately after installation anyway, and will start automatically each time you fire up your machine). BTW, the data directory is /etc/boinc-client (and /var/lib/boinc-client) with all BOINC-related stuff user:group permissions set as boinc:boinc - but if you use the GUI interface to manage projects you shouldn't need to worry about that sort of detail. Always simpler to first look for a solution with the Linux distribution you're using - and KUbuntu handles it very well! 
To err is human; to moo, bovine.
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