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webmanoffesto

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Message 69601 - Posted: 14 May 2016, 15:48:13 UTC

I have a new install of Debian Wheezy. When I use the command line to install Boinc

> sudo apt-get install boinc-client
and
> sudo apt-get install boinc-manager

I get errors on both:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package boinc-client
E: Unable to locate package boinc-client


How do I find the client and manager?[/code]
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Message 69602 - Posted: 14 May 2016, 17:53:15 UTC - in response to Message 69601.  
Last modified: 14 May 2016, 17:54:20 UTC

I have a new install of Debian Wheezy. When I use the command line to install Boinc


hello webmanoffesto, can you be a little more specific of platform? i guess you have a good reason for installing Wheezy rather than Jessie.


I get errors on both:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package boinc-client
E: Unable to locate package boinc-client


How do I find the client and manager?[/code]


I'm not sure if this helps but here is Debian Software and how to get it. I suspect something like
sudo apt-get upgrade

and
sudo apt-get update


are needed before "installs". There are equivalent "aptitude" commands listed in that link.


good luck
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Message 69656 - Posted: 19 May 2016, 13:03:15 UTC
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As Agentb said you need do an "sudo apt-get update" command in a terminal session followed by a "sudo apt-get upgrade" command to get the latest versions of things. The update tells it to get the current list of what is available and the upgrade will ask to download newer versions of packages, so always do the update before the upgrade. After that you can do a "sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager" command to install BOINC.

Debian are on the Jessie release at the moment, Wheezy is the one before so I would suggest you update to Jessie. You should be able to get 7.4.23 from the repo.
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