project URL:

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/

Download and install the latest development version of BOINC as well as Podman. Windows also needs WSL2 enabled.

Windows: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php?dev=1

* Follow instruction to enable WSL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
* Enable WSL2 (currently only WSL2 is supported)
* Download latest release from https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-buda-runner-wsl/releases
* Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the release
* Double-click on the boinc-buda-runner.wsl file
* Open Windows Terminal and select 'boinc-buda-runner' profile or run the command wsl.exe -d boinc-buda-runner in the terminal to start the application.
* Run BOINC client (download and install first if you haven't done so from https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php) and verify that WSL and podman are detected.
In case of any issues, report them on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc


Linux: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

An example of Linux install instructions.
Install the alpha version of BOINC on Ubuntu 24.04
In a terminal window, enter:

sudo curl -fsSL https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/$(lsb_release -cs)/boinc.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/boinc.gpg
sudo echo deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/boinc.gpg] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/$(lsb_release -cs) $(lsb_release -cs) main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boinc.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager

On headless systems, omit 'boinc-manager'. On such systems, the BOINC client can be controlled either using boinccmd, or using a remote GUI.

Details on the installer are here.

GPU computing
If the system has a GPU, it may be usable by BOINC projects that have GPU-enabled apps. On some systems you may need to install GPU drivers that support this.

Check the BOINC client's output on startup. It should detect your GPU (NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel) using OpenCL, and NVIDIA GPUs should also be detected using CUDA. If not, check whether updated drivers are available for your GPU type and Linux distro. In general, vendor-supplied drivers may be preferable to open-source drivers.

Install Podman
Some BOINC projects use Docker to package their applications. We recommend that you install Podman, an open-source version of Docker. To do so:

sudo apt install podman
sudo usermod --add-subuids 100000-165535 --add-subgids 100000-165535 boinc

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Hi,

I think this thread is a good candidate to make sticky, if you can. Also, it appears that the instructions displayed above are not the ones currently being displayed at 'Install the alpha version of BOINC on Ubuntu 24.04' for the BOINC Alpha in Ubuntu 24.04, this is what appears as of the time of my post:

sudo curl -fsSL https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/noble/boinc.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/boinc.gpg
sudo echo deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/boinc.gpg] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/alpha/noble noble main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boinc.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager

YMMV!

In reply to crashtech's message of 20 Jun 2025:

it appears that the instructions displayed above are not the ones currently being displayed at 'Install the alpha version of BOINC on Ubuntu 24.04' for the BOINC Alpha in Ubuntu 24.04

Thanks. Posting to this thread is a good way of knowing that there are changes and staying updated. It's a good reminder that this is all under active development and instructions may change at any time.

Standard BOINC forums lock the posts after an hour so ya wont be able to update the post to make any corrections. :(

The current Recommended version of BOINC (8.2.4) supports Docker apps so there is no need to download the development version as mentioned originally.