Hi, I have Boinc 7.2.42 running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an old-ish laptop.

I am getting nagged to install a specific update, containing:
BOINC Manager 1.2MB
Central cgroup manager daemon 30kB
Core client for the BOINC distributed ... 459kB
Libraries of BOINC the client depends on 354kB
plus
Ubuntu Base
XLS stylesheets for the yelp help brow... 226kB

I have tried installing several times, and each time been told there are untrusted packages to be installed. Okay....

But then it just keeps coming back; the same update package to install.

Is there something I don't understand?
Should I blow away my BOINC installation and go with a fresh installation?

Thanks,
Peter
long-term BOINCer

The Berkeley BOINC installer version is still at 7.2.42, there hasn't been any updates on it yet.

The version available through the package manager is another thing though. It may be that its maintainer updated the BOINC in it, but you ought to be able to check that by looking for the new BOINC client and manager specifically.

What is nagging you? If not BOINC itself, or a message through its Event Log, I wouldn't go for any updates. Which version did you install, the Berkeley BOINC, or the one from repositories?

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I installed it through the Ubuntu Software Manager. It says it's "boinc-manager 7.2.42+dfsg-1" currently installed.

The nagging is this 'new update available' window that keeps appearing with the 2.3MB (total) download I described above -- those are the components in the download.

Heavy sigh....

:-)

Peter

I installed it through the Ubuntu Software Manager.

Those versions are maintained by someone else outside of Berkeley, and since the whole software is open source, this maintainer can have changed anything they liked in the software for the (update) behaviour to change. Now, I'll wait for any of the Linux gurus to pass by and comment on what the update tries to get you to download, but I suspect it's something you'll have to take up with the package maintainer at Ubuntu.

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I have tried installing several times, and each time been told there are untrusted packages to be installed. Okay....

But then it just keeps coming back; the same update package to install.

Is there something I don't understand?

Peter hi

I suspect you will find "untrusted packages using Update Manager" being the problem, i have certainly had problems installed such things via the GUI.

There are some suggestions here

Let us know what works