Don't know nothing about Fedora, but a quick google reveals that this Distro has a similar Software repository as Ubuntu has. Quick google points to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc...acace3bbef75eec1161469edb then hit the Update Status link to get to custom builds of 6.10.58 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=214963 where a x86_64 kit shows for download.

Let us know if this one does put the wheels in motion.

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edit: Yes, ''yum'' is the Fedora term I've read in discussions and BOINC had a wiki page up for this distro: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Fedora The /usr/bin placement of executables is identical to what Ubuntu does with the Synaptic kit.

Thank You very much. I will try the rpm.
Micah

Thinking with that port error, that kate now remembers what she had to do in the firewall (port 31416 is mentioned in that wiki page too ;>)

You can use boinccmd sans GUI to attach WCG to the core client that is probably already loaded.

OK, I'm at home now and could check out my Fedora 14 machine. By the way, I am *not* at all expert with Fedora -- I put it on my netbook just to see what it was like and have done very little with it, so my advice may not be the best.

My computers are on a secure network that has its own firewall, so I chose to just disable Fedora's firewall. I went into

System > Administration > Firewall

entered my root password, and clicked the "Disable" button.

If your computer isn't otherwise protected, you will want instead to configure the Fedora firewall. This link might be helpful:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Basic_Fedora_Linux_Firewall_Configuration

The other thing I did solves the problem of the BOINC client not being able to find the network when you first boot up. That problem occurs if BOINC comes up before the wireless does, so a simple fix is to delay BOINC coming up. You can do this by editing the BOINC initialization script. First you need to get root access, for which you will need to remember the root password you created when you installed Fedora. Enter

su -

Then put in your root password when prompted. This will give you a window in which you are root. In that window, enter

gedit /etc/init.d/boinc-client

Find the section of the script that starts out:

start() {
check_status && exit 0

And add the line "sleep 30"

start() {
sleep 30
check_status && exit 0

Save the file. Close the root window.

The next time you reboot, the network should have time to connect before BOINC starts, and BOINC should connect ok.

Hope this helps.

Kate

I have BOINC installed on two Fedora 14 x64 machines with no problems. The best way is to use yum with the default Fedora repositories. As per the BOINC download page, for Fedora just run the following command as root:

yum install boinc-client boinc-manager

The links provided earlier in this thread referenced version 6.10.58. I would not recommend this version as it is still in the testing repository. The current stable version is 6.10.45.

If you are still having problems I suggest you remove any RPMs you have installed, delete the /var/lib/boinc directory if it's not cleaned up properly and run the yum command above. You shouldn't need to make any firewall changes but you may need to reboot or alternatively start the boinc-client service manually. If you see the BOINC Manager in the System Tools menu then you know everything is installed properly and you can begin attaching to projects as usual.

I hope that helps.