Posts by jeff.ligon

1) Message boards : Questions : Questions on Linux Setup (Message 418)
Posted 15 Apr 2020 by jeff.ligon
Post:
I was able to custom build a newer version of BOINC (7.17) by following a solution posted on the "Problems" message board.

https://scienceunited.org/forum_thread.php?id=141
2) Message boards : Problems : Linux Headless installation -- > cant join project (Message 417)
Posted 15 Apr 2020 by jeff.ligon
Post:
Thanks for posting these steps Waldmeisda.

In my case, the very last step gives me an error message when trying to use boinccmd, it complains it's not connected.

$ boinccmd --acct_mgr info  
can't connect to local host

Any idea how to fix?

I verified that the BOINC client service is running.

$ sudo systemctl status boinc-client.service
● boinc-client.service - LSB: BOINC core client
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/boinc-client; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2020-04-15 18:00:57 UTC; 24min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 9830)
   CGroup: /system.slice/boinc-client.service

Apr 15 18:00:57 iotservertwo systemd[1]: Starting LSB: BOINC core client...
Apr 15 18:00:57 iotservertwo systemd[1]: Started LSB: BOINC core client.

By the way, for reference to others, here were the extra steps I had to do in order to get BOINC 7.17 installed and running.

My Ubuntu version.
$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"

Missing packages installed to get { ./_autosetup } to run.
$ sudo apt-get install pkg-config
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf
$ sudo apt-get install libtool

Missing packages installed to get { ./configure --disable-server --disable-manager } to run.
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libsasl2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk3.0 libwxgtk3.0-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libnotify-dev

Service failed to start.
$ sudo systemctl start boinc-client.service
Failed to start boinc-client.service: Unit boinc-client.service is masked.

Fix by doing.
sudo rm /lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service
sudo systemctl enable boinc-client.service
sudo systemctl start boinc-client.service

        

    
        

        
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            Message boards : 
            Questions : 
        Questions on Linux Setup
        (Message 416)
        

        Posted 15 Apr 2020 by  jeff.ligon 
        

        Post:
        

        Thanks Tullio, interesting result, that's a good clue.   When I try to download via a browser on Mac or Windows, I'm prompted to download BOINC version 7.16.6.   



From the Science United site, the download is BOINC version number 7.14.2.



But Ubuntu's apt-get installer installs version 7.9.3 so similar problem, this version is too old.



I need to figure out a different way to install a 7.14 or 7.16 version.
        

    
        

        
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            Message boards : 
            Questions : 
        Questions on Linux Setup
        (Message 410)
        

        Posted 15 Apr 2020 by  jeff.ligon 
        

        Post:
        

        So I'm trying to do the same.  I already had the command line BOINC client running on Ubuntu 18.04 contributing to SETI@Home.



I would now like to switch over to Science United.   I get an error that my version is not current but it is?




$ boinccmd --join_acct_mgr https://scienceunited.org <e-mail> <password>
polling for reply
poll status: operation in progress
polling for reply
poll status: operation in progress
polling for reply
Messages from account manager:
Science United requires a newer version of BOINC.  Please install the current version from https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php




$ boinccmd --client_version
Client version: 7.9.3
$ boinc --version
7.9.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

        

    








        
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