I want to install Boinc.

[Richard Cranium]

Boinc isn't available in the package manager?   Is there any other way to install it???

[Juanito]

The source code is available on GitHub.

[Richard Cranium]

The source code is available on GitHub.

Unfortunatly, That dosen't really do me any good.  about a thousand files there. and not really a good way to get the ones i need (if i even knew what i needed ) onto the machine that would be running Boinc...

[gadget42]

had a free minute and browsed this webpage. interesting.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux

[Richard Cranium]

had a free minute and browsed this webpage. interesting.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux

Yeah , But no way to download it.

[mocore]

But no way to download it.

it appears the whey is
"The Berkeley Installer is available directly from the BOINC project. " ---> .boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php ---> · All versions ---> .boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

so you mist be low on will ?

(where there's a will there's a whay)   

[Richard Cranium]

But no way to download it.

it appears the whey is
"The Berkeley Installer is available directly from the BOINC project. " ---> .boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php ---> · All versions ---> .boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

so you mist be low on will ?

(where there's a will there's a way)   

Try to download a package, i can't , the files are corrupt.   just shows up as a bunch of garbled nonsense.

so you mist be low on will ?

not sure what this means .

[Rich]

Hi Richard Cranium
I downloaded the x86 version 7.4.22 from here:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php
After placing it in my home directory I ran:

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tc@E310:~$ sh boinc_7.4.22_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
use /home/tc/BOINC/run_manager to start BOINC
tc@E310:~$When I tried to start it, I got this:

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tc@E310:~$ /home/tc/BOINC/run_manager
./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tc@E310:~$webkitgtk-1.0-0.tcz  is not available in TC10. It was last available in TC4, but has so
many dependencies I doubt it would work if copied over. So that's where I stopped.

[Juanito]

I tried compiling boinc-8.0.4, but it requires wxwidgets >= 3.1.3, whereas we have wxwidgets-3.0.4 in the x86 repo and wxwidgets-3.2.4 in the x86_64 repo.

You could try one of the pre-compiled packages available here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/releases, but I'm not sure they'd work.

If you are really desperate for boinc, I can try updating wxwidgets to, say, 3.1.7 in the x86 repo.

[Rich]

Hi Juanito

... You could try one of the pre-compiled packages available here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/releases, but I'm not sure they'd work. ...

There was also a thread in 2012 where BOINC wouldn't run because
it was compiled against too new a version of libc.so:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,6994.msg80376.html#msg80376

[Juanito]

boinc posted to tc-15.x x86 repo

[Richard Cranium]

boinc posted to tc-15.x x86 repo

Sorry for the late reply , OK so here's what's happened . booted newest version of TC same as before . Live , It's not installed yet (because i wanted to make sure boinc would work ) Found boinc in the TC repo , Set it to install , it installed , Clicked on the "boinc" icon on the bottom panel (what is the panel called?) , it didn't launch , so i rebooted and tried reinstall.

boinc won't show up in the repo now.  did i screw up something???

[Juanito]

The boinc extension is definately still in the repo..

As you found out, when you reboot a live install, everything you had is lost - you might want to install to a usb stick or similar using tc-install from thr CorePlus iso.

If something does not start by clicking on an icon, you can open a terminal window and start it from there to check for errors - enter "boincmgr <cr>" in this case.

The window bar is called wbar.

[Richard Cranium]

The boinc extension is definately still in the repo..

As you found out, when you reboot a live install, everything you had is lost - you might want to install to a usb stick or similar using tc-install from thr CorePlus iso.

If something does not start by clicking on an icon, you can open a terminal window and start it from there to check for errors - enter "boincmgr <cr>" in this case.

The window bar is called wbar.

Thank You , I will reply back soon.

[Richard Cranium]

The boinc extension is definately still in the repo..

Ok , I'm Either doing this completely the wrong way OR Boinc isn't available .

I've installed TC 15.0 to sda1 and it boots. Ethernet is working .  I checked my router settings for traffic coming from that machine (TC) and the router sees it.

i search for Boinc in the repo and it dosen't show up.  but it's wierd that other things show up , i typed random words and had search results. so that makes me think that I AM actually connected to the repo and that i have correctly used the package manager search function.   

So got to thinking that I'd boot up an older version of TC and give it go (version 10.1), Oddly enough it dosen't find the Boinc package either.