Posts by A_Wellesley

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Problem installing BOINC client (Message 68421)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by A_Wellesley
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Coolio.

It's up and running now; the Ubuntu BOINC manager doesn't have any tabs at the top; this means that I can't sync it with my http://pool.gridcoin.co/ account manager. Is this normal?
2) Message boards : BOINC client : Problem installing BOINC client (Message 68416)
Posted 20 Mar 2016 by A_Wellesley
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I've downloaded the installer for the BOINC client (as found here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php).

I am using Ubuntu 15.10, and the file downloaded was boinc_7.2.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh

As I was not sure how to run a .sh file, I went to an Ubuntu help forum (http://askubuntu.com/questions/77247/ive-downloaded-a-sh-file-how-do-i-install-this) and saw this advice:

"First you might need to give the .sh file permission to execute. chmod +x file.sh, then you can execute it with ./file.sh.

You can also right-click on the file, select Properties, then select Permissions and then select 'Allow executing file as program'. Then you double-click the file and select 'Run in Terminal' or 'Run'."

Here's what happened:
$ chmod +x boinc_7.2.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
$ ./boinc_7.2.42_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh
use /home/christopeher/Downloads/BOINC/run_manager to start BOINC
$

So, I go to /home/christopeher/Downloads/BOINC and find run_manager. Upon opening the file, I see that it contains this:

cd "/home/christopeher/Downloads/BOINC" && exec ./boincmgr $@

I guess I should run it, right? Well, every time I copy and paste that into my terminal, the terminal simply closes. I'm not sure what's happening, but I'm sure that is not the desired result.

And as for going into properties and setting the .sh file to be allowed to run as an executable, that does nothing, as the file still attempts to load in gedit (but always freezes).

I'm at my wit's end; can anyone help?



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