upgraded to Kubuntu 12.04 and boinc refused to run, error codes telling me I am missing a library but never could find it.
finally purged Boinc from my system and reloaded 7.0.27 and everything works fine.
I am reasonably savy linux user and spent more than a month trying to find the work around or solution.



not sure the problem but I'm not touching 7.0.28

Bob

You aren't specific but it sounds like you were running Ubuntu 12.04 and BOINC 7.0.28 ran OK then you switched from gnome desktop to kde desktop (Kubuntu) and discovered 7.0.28 would no longer run.

If that's the case then remember 7.0.28 is compiled on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS which uses gnome not kde. From what you say I gather installing kde replaces some library BOINC needs with a library kde needs though I think the package installer should have raised some warnings about removing a required package. Maybe it didn't or maybe it did but you ignored the warning and forced it to proceed.

The switch from gnome to kde (again, assuming that's what you did) is mostly a switch in graphics related libs, probably gtk, so I suspect it's just BOINC manager 7.0.28 that will not run with kde. I have a hunch BOINC client 7.0.28 will still run fine for you since it does not use graphics libs. It is not necessary for the client and manager version to match. For example I used manager 6.12.x with client 7.0.10 with no problems. If you need 7.0.28 then you could run 7.0.28 client and 7.0.27 manager, assuming I am correct in my analysis and 7.0.28 client will run with kde.

BTW, the ldd command tells you which libs a binary requires and whether you have them or not. For example ldd boinc lists all the libs boinc client needs and tells you which ones it can find on your system and which ones it cannot find. ldd boinc | grep "not found" shortens the output to just libs ldd could not find on your system.

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