I've downloaded the installer for the BOINC client (as found here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php).

I am using Ubuntu 15.10, and the file downloaded was boinc_7.2.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh

As I was not sure how to run a .sh file, I went to an Ubuntu help forum (http://askubuntu.com/questions/77247/ive-downloaded-a-sh-file-how-do-i-install-this) and saw this advice:

"First you might need to give the .sh file permission to execute. chmod +x file.sh, then you can execute it with ./file.sh.

You can also right-click on the file, select Properties, then select Permissions and then select 'Allow executing file as program'. Then you double-click the file and select 'Run in Terminal' or 'Run'."

Here's what happened:
$ chmod +x boinc_7.2.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
$ ./boinc_7.2.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
use /home/christopeher/Downloads/BOINC/run_manager to start BOINC
$

So, I go to /home/christopeher/Downloads/BOINC and find run_manager. Upon opening the file, I see that it contains this:

cd "/home/christopeher/Downloads/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@

I guess I should run it, right? Well, every time I copy and paste that into my terminal, the terminal simply closes. I'm not sure what's happening, but I'm sure that is not the desired result.

And as for going into properties and setting the .sh file to be allowed to run as an executable, that does nothing, as the file still attempts to load in gedit (but always freezes).

I'm at my wit's end; can anyone help?

You will have a better experience installing via the software repositories, rather than the "Berkeley" method.

If available, we recommend that you install a distribution-specific package instead.

See here

As far as Ubuntu OS - i always stick with Ubuntu's LTS releases, and 15.10 is only supported now until July 2016. 14.04 LTS is supported until 2019.

Good luck.

If you want a simple way to install BOINC on Ubuntu, then just install BOINC with the package manager.

If you really want to run the version downloaded from here, you are probably missing some libraries. You should install at least libwxgtk2.8-0, libnotify4 and libsqlite3-0 .

Coolio.

It's up and running now; the Ubuntu BOINC manager doesn't have any tabs at the top; this means that I can't sync it with my http://pool.gridcoin.co/ account manager. Is this normal?

Could you clarify, which version are you running now?

manager doesn't have any tabs at the top

With tabs do you mean Projects, Task, etc? Can't say I would have ever seen them missing. Uhh... try resizing the window?

In the meantime, Manager has some keyboard shortcuts you can try.

Notices -> Ctrl+Shift+N
Projects -> Ctrl+Shift+P
Tasks -> Ctrl+Shift+T
Transfers -> Ctrl+Shift+X
Statistics -> Ctrl+Shift+S
Disk -> Ctrl+Shift+D
Simple View -> Ctrl+Shift+V
Advanced View -> Ctrl+Shift+A

File -> Alt+F
View -> Alt+V
Activity -> Alt+A
Options -> Alt+O
Tools -> Alt+T
Help -> Alt+H

Uhh... try resizing the window?

Also a possibility, make sure you're not in Simple View.

If it looks similar to

click View->Advanced view.

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Uhh... try resizing the window?

Also a possibility, make sure you're not in Simple View.

D'oh. Somehow I understood it was the "bar" that's used to select the tab was missing.

There was a time when it was possible to have a simple view screen without any of the "File" and "Options" text menu on it, by (double-)clicking on the edge of simple view. That however isn't reproducible anymore with the present 7.x versions.

The fix for that was to edit its screen position values to default, if I am not mistaken. But that doesn't seem to be the problem here. Perhaps we both need a better description. :-)

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