I have just downloaded and executed boinc_5.10.28_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh .

There is no boinc manager in the BOINC directory. Contents (after executing the boinc client once) are:

all_projects_list.xml  binstall.sh boinc  boinc_cmd
ca-bundle.crt  client_state_prev.xml  client_state.xml gui_rpc_auth.cfg
lockfile  run_client  time_stats_log

Running SuSE 10.3 (as a VMware virtual machine under Windows XP) on an Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor.

Any ideas?

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Strange.

I just unpacked the .sh for 5.10.28 not an hour ago and I do have have all the executables (I don't run it out of that directory though).

-rw-r--r-- 1 Kathryn Kathryn 219 2007-11-02 01:20 binstall.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Kathryn Kathryn 1692420 2007-11-02 01:20 boinc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Kathryn Kathryn 216680 2007-11-02 01:20 boinc_cmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Kathryn Kathryn 6270240 2007-11-02 01:20 boincmgr
-rw-r--r-- 1 Kathryn Kathryn 815 2007-11-02 01:20 boincmgr.16x16.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Kathryn Kathryn 2395 2007-11-02 01:20 boincmgr.32x32.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Kathryn Kathryn 5570 2007-11-02 01:20 boincmgr.48x48.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 Kathryn Kathryn 238100 2007-11-02 01:20 ca-bundle.crt
drwxr-xr-x 38 Kathryn Kathryn 4096 2007-11-02 01:20 locale
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Kathryn Kathryn 52 2007-12-24 11:33 run_client
-rwxrwxr-x 1 Kathryn Kathryn 55 2007-12-24 11:33 run_manager

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Kathryn :o)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I bet you got the version without the manager.

Due to a policy change, there are two releases. The one that appears on http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php is the one that is a CLI only package.

Try http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php and grab the ubuntu one. I'm not sure how it will work on Suse, but it does work on Fedora 7.

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Kathryn :o)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I bet you got the version without the manager.

Due to a policy change, there are two releases. The one that appears on http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php is the one that is a CLI only package.

Try http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php and grab the ubuntu one. I'm not sure how it will work on Suse, but it does work on Fedora 7.

Thanks, you are correct. The main download page offers only the cli version without mentioning that! I followed the instructions in the release notes wiki page which do not mention a cli-only version.

The ubuntu download works as far as the "Connect to a project" dialog. I won't be checking the client any further as I only want the manager on this virtual machine. I do get the message:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but this does not stop the programs starting up.

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I've sent a note to David and Rom about this. I've also tagged the Release Notes page for editing so hopefully someone will take a shot at updating that.

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Kathryn :o)

The ubuntu download works as far as the "Connect to a project" dialog. I won't be checking the client any further as I only want the manager on this virtual machine. I do get the message:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so:
  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but this does not stop the programs starting up.

Hi,
for OpenSuse 64bit you can find the downloads here:
http://www.rechenaugust.de/boinc/index.html

For the case that you are running 32bit OpenSuse, i have added the 5.10.32 version as 32bit. I couldn't test this, so please test for yourself...

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Rechenaugust

Why Berkeley is now only supporting Ubuntu I don't know... what was wrong with the old method of building a distribution-agnostic version?

I hope they go back to that.

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Why Berkeley is now only supporting Ubuntu I don't know... what was wrong with the old method of building a distribution-agnostic version?

I hope they go back to that.

Basically it boils down to time. Now that Rom is handling both Windows and Linux builds as well as coding, something had to give.

The reason for the policy change is that
it's proven difficult/impossible to make
a graphical version that will run on the majority
of recent linux distributions.
Rom has spent a lot of time on it,
at the expense of more important tasks.

We're maintaining a graphical version for Ubuntu
because it's the most widely used distribution.
Package maintainers for other distros are welcome
to maintain distro-specific versions of BOINC.

-- David

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Kathryn :o)

Augustine has been building platform-agnostic versions recently, perhaps he could be persuaded to volunteer to do it officially?

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I wanted to point an openSUSE user towards 5.10.21, but the FTP site doesn't have any more recent versions than 5.10.19, is this no longer being maintained?

http://morel.mit.edu/download/boinc/dl/

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5.10.21 (32bit)
5.10.21 (64bit)

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Many thanks for that, I've pointed him towards that location :-)

Appreciated.

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Just to let you know that 5.10.21 resolved his problem (being unable to run under openSUSE 10.3 64-bit).

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