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Message 6757 - Posted 4 Jun 2012 3:24:35 UTC

I cannot seem to get the boinc software to install on ubuntu 12.04. When I attempt to use the "sudo aptitude install boinc-client boinc-manager
command it just comes back with string not found. Can anyone help me to get this software installed on my system?

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Message 6758 - Posted 10 Jun 2012 21:11:13 UTC - in response to Message ID 6757 .

I cannot seem to get the boinc software to install on ubuntu 12.04. When I attempt to use the "sudo aptitude install boinc-client boinc-manager
command it just comes back with string not found. Can anyone help me to get this software installed on my system?


There is a KNOWN PROBLEM with the default repository version of BOINC in Ubuntu 12.04 and most likely has been removed due to the error.

See the Topic "Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : Boinc quit working again with newist release of Ubuntu" over at the SETI@Home forums.

The developers for the BOINC Ubuntu version have been updating ALL packages for Boinc in that PPA repository frequently.

You can follow the Ubuntu Version BUG Report here:
Ubuntu “boinc” package Bugs : boinc in Ubuntu

Below are instructions from the SETI forum post:

if you still have the PPA installed, a quick:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

should do the trick

If you are not sure if the PPA is installed, or if the above doesn't work, just try the commands below again:

Recap on removing broken boinc, installing the PPA, and installing this boinc (for Ubuntu 12.04 desktop) Using a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove boinc
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boinc


Also: once you get your Boinc running and not reporting errors, and getting some validations: It's probably a good idea to remove the ppa to avoid further breakages by continuing updates from the PPA. You can remove the ppa (from ubuntu 12.04 only) by:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/costamagnagianfranco-boinc-precise.list
sudo apt-get update


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Message 6762 - Posted 28 Jun 2012 0:16:45 UTC - in response to Message ID 6757 .

I cannot seem to get the boinc software to install on ubuntu 12.04. When I attempt to use the "sudo aptitude install boinc-client boinc-manager
command it just comes back with string not found. Can anyone help me to get this software installed on my system?


The command would be
$ sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager

(note the common user-level prompt of $... if you were at root-level the prompt would be # instead, and sudo would not be required. And "apt-get" not 'aptitude')

And I usually use
$ sudo apt-get update
prior to installing new packages.

At the moment, 7.0.24 is still in the repo. 7.0.27 is in the boinc/testing PPA, but I have no idea what the criteria are to push it to the regular repo.

You can add that PPA with
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pkg-boinc/testing
if you want to risk running essentially 'beta' versions of BOINC for Ubuntu.

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