Seti, BOINC, and Linux

[Sanjoelo]

Hi all -

Has anyone posted a guide to using the BOINC client for Seti under Linux as yet? I'm a Linux newb, but would really like to get this running properly on my Fedora (Red Hat) machine. I don't have a lot of spare time to futz with it at present, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-Sanjoelo

 

[Rattledagger]

Being a long time since run any unix, I'll just rip off a post by Cotton over at ArsTechnica:


download the file. open a terminal and do the following:
>gunzip boinc_whatever.gz
>chmod +x boinc_whatever
>./boinc_whatever

then put in the project url (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu) and the key they emailed you when you signed up.


If this doesn't work, someone else will probably have better answers. Just remember, the web-site is currently down & while the wu-server should be back in in an hour...

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Being a long time since run any unix, I'll just rip off a post by Cotton over at ArsTechnica:


download the file. open a terminal and do the following:
>gunzip boinc_whatever.gz
>chmod +x boinc_whatever
>./boinc_whatever

then put in the project url (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu) and the key they emailed you when you signed up.


If this doesn't work, someone else will probably have better answers. Just remember, the web-site is currently down & while the wu-server should be back in in an hour...

my distro is missing some of the releavent SOs can someone post all the SOs needed to run this project compiled for x86

 

[Sanjoelo]

Thanks, Rattledagger, that helped. I also adapted a bit of this guide to get it running in the background. Not sure it's right, but it's definitely crunching now. I hope there's going to be a SetiSpy (or equivalent) for BOINC.

-Sanjoelo

 

[silverpig]

I know you need mysql in order to compile it.

Didn't have an ebuild made up in gentoo yet (although there probably is one now) so I just did it by hand. Found out it needed mysql that way.