Hello,

I'm trying to install BOINC on Ubuntu as per the instructions on the forum. When I run

sudo apt-get install boinc

I get the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: boinc : Depends: boinc-manager (>= 7.0.28+dfsg-0~837~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Please help me install BOINC! Thanks.

Hi Justin,

I just did (yet another) install of this PPA's Boinc, on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04, and it installed without broken dependencies, and is running a seti unit right now.

I can see by the version that is trying to be installed, that you may not have done a "sudo apt-get upgrade", the PPA package is currently ...840...
the one showing in your error is ...837, which is a few weeks old and has been re-built several times since

I have been unable to re-create a couple issues some people have been having.

I can offer this, just try again, if it doesn't work I'm kind of out of ideas as I cannot re-create the issue.

sudo apt-get remove boinc
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boinc

If this won't work for you, the last (and perhaps best) option is to install Boinc manually from the Berkley website download

-Dave

They updated ALL packages for Boinc in that PPA repository earlier this evening.

if you still have the PPA installed, a quick:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade 

should do the trick

If you are not sure if the PPA is installed, or if the above doesn't work, just try the commands below again:

Recap on removing broken boinc, installing the PPA, and installing this boinc (for Ubuntu 12.04 desktop) Using a terminal:

sudo apt-get remove boinc
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boinc

[Also: once you get your Boinc running and not reporting errors, and getting some validations: It's probably a good idea to remove the ppa to avoid further breakages by continuing updates from the PPA. You can remove the ppa (from ubuntu 12.04 only) by:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/costamagnagianfranco-boinc-precise.list
sudo apt-get update

]

Ok here's my last post on this issue.


Some people with certain circumstances are still having issues with Boinc working for Seti@home.


If the PPA does not work for you, your only option is to install boinc manually from the Boinc website here.

Click "all versions" and download Linux 64, or 32, (preferably version 7.0.28) depending on your machine

Before doing any manual install I'd advise removing your existing Boinc installation with your package manager, and remove the PPA as well, and update your package manager.

I can do no more to help on this issue. The PPA works for some, not for others. It's going to be up to the Debian/Ubuntu people to figure that out, and I can't promise that will be anytime soon.

Best of luck to those unlucky ones. I apologize for the inconvenience. Please be aware that this is a Debian/Ubuntu issue, not Boinc. (If you feel strongly about the issue, you can complain over at launchpad here)

-Dave

Please try using this PPA instead:(It is maintained by Ubuntu's Boinc team and contains a working 7.0.27) ppa:pkg-boinc/ppa

First:(for Ubuntu 12.04)

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/costamagnagianfranco-boinc-precise.list
sudo apt-get update

Then:(for ubuntu 12.04)

sudo apt-get remove boinc
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pkg-boinc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boinc

Best wishes. Feedback appreciated. Thanks
-Dave

Please try using this PPA instead:(It is maintained by Ubuntu's Boinc team and contains a working 7.0.27) ppa:pkg-boinc/ppa

First:(for Ubuntu 12.04)

sudo rm /et...
sudo apt...

Then:(for ubuntu 12.04)

sudo apt-get remove boinc
...
sudo apt-get install boinc

Best wishes. Feedback appreciated. Thanks
-Dave

Hi,

I just tried this and it gets boinc working, thanks.
I had also got it working with the version 7.0.28, but, catching up here on this thread, I just can't get it to use the GPU.
I've tried the latest nvidia drivers and the boinc-nvidia packages as shown in the launchpad but nothing helps.
Any idea?

Just for those trying, I found some information here that I'm testing :

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=229633

Will check and keep updated

Hi everyone, I'm Costamagna Gianfranco, the person responsible for the above ppa.

I'm sorry for gaving you troubles with my ppa, when I saw the ubuntu bug I create the ppa for giving Dave help in fixing the problem, the ppa wasn't mean for "public domain".

So I continued to update it automatically with an automatic recipe and the problem started when the debian side changed something and I triggered a bug in bzr that didn't help me in building boinc again (something about a bad patch and a FTBFS in debian/upstream I don't remember).

Now I changed the recipe to automatically build into another ppa and when the build is correct I manually copy the packages into "costamagnagianfranco/boinc".

The difference between my package and pkg boinc one is that my package claims to be always up to date with the debian boinc trunk git, while the second one will update only sometimes.

So if you want to keep always up to date with the latest boinc and boinc app seti you should use my ppa (I promise I will try to avoid problems anymore), while if you want a "stable" release you should go for boinc pkg or the ubuntu shipped one.

I personally think that my ppa is better because as far as I can tell the upstream/debian developers very rarely introduce new bugs, while they fix so many bugs every time a commit is made.

An example of the delta between pkg and costamagnagianfranco/boinc is that now pkg ships 7.0.27 and I ship 7.0.34.

The boinc app seti delta is even bigger:
precise ships 5.13 version, quantal 6.12 while I ship 6.97 (and I will ship 7.x as soon it will become stable)

So sorry for the troubles I have caused, now the problem should be fixed.

Bests

G.