Did you try copying/pasting the code that F@H lists on their website for the Linux SMP client?
EDIT:
Detailed Linux Installation Instructions (Console)
We are in the process of making an installer to make this process much easier. For now, here are detailed instructions to setup the SMP client.
Go to Terminal. Depending of your desktop engine (KDE, GNOME, ...) the Terminal application can be at different places, but you'll find it. GNOME has it at "Applications->Accessories->Terminal". Open Terminal.
In the Terminal window you should see a prompt that looks something like this: yourusername@yourcomputername ~ $
To get the SMP FAH client going type in following commands:
mkdir -p ~/folding/FAH
cd ~/folding/FAH
curl -O
http://www.stanford.edu/group/...FAH6.00beta1-Linux.tgz
tar xzf FAH6.00beta1-Linux.tgz
Note: If you don't have curl available on your machine, use wget instead:
wget
http://www.stanford.edu/group/...FAH6.00beta1-Linux.tgz
Now you should have the SMP FAH client in place and you'll have to configure it. It can be done by running following command: ./fah6 -smp -configonly
After setting the configuration there are couple of ways to start the SMP FAH client. One way is to start it is by typing in each time the following command: ./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9
OPTIONAL: To make it a little easier for yourself, one can making a script by running following commands:
echo "./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9" > FaH
chmod +x FaH
Now you'll just have to run
./FaH
and all those additional FAH client flags will get added by itself.
Note: All those listed commands MUST be typed/pasted from this little HOWTO to the terminal (window) of your machine.
Example:
user@box ~ $ mkdir -p ~/folding/FAH
user@box ~ $ cd ~/folding/FAH
user@box FAH $ curl -O
http://www.stanford.edu/group/...FAH6.00beta1-Linux.tgz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 138k 100 138k 0 0 34461 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 39789
user@box FAH $ tar xzf FAH6.00beta1-Linux.tgz
user@box FAH $ ls -la
total 960
drwxr-xr-x 5 user guest 170 Nov 6 23:58 .
drwx------ 18 user guest 612 Nov 6 23:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 user guest 138145 Nov 6 23:56 FAH6.00beta1-Linux.tgz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user guest 282796 Nov 4 07:04 fah6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user guest 60156 Oct 27 16:52 mpiexec
user@box FAH $ ./fah6 -smp -configonly
...
user@box FAH $ echo "./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9" > FaH
user@box FAH $ chmod +x FaH
user@box FAH $ ./FaH
...
