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Former Member
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The download itself is fine, but when I try to open the installer, it opens in Text Editor and does nothing but refuse to close unless I hit alt+f4 for 5 minuets. Help?
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a_mobile_humanist
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Which download? Where is it coming from?
----------------------------------------If you're downloading from World Community Grid, then you are recieving a file called"boinc_6.10.58_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh" This is a shell script (as indicated by ".sh"). You must make this file executable in order to use it properly; without doing so, it is simply treated as a plain text file by default, which is why it is opening in the text editor. It's been a while since I've used Ubuntu, but you should be able to find the file in your file browser, right click on it, select an option to the effect of "Properties..." and then set the file as an executable for the file owner, in the file permissions options. Alternatively, you can open a shell in the folder containing the file and issue the following command: chmod 766 boinc_6.10.58_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh Then, you can execute the script: ./boinc_6.10.58_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh Alternatively, you can avoid (what is in my experience) the pain of installing Linux programs this way by using a preassembled package specifically made for Ubuntu's package management system: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Ubuntu In fact, this option might be ideal, as you will then automatically receive updates/patches through the package manager, rather than have to deal with install/uninstall scripts manually. [Edit 2 times, last edit by a_mobile_humanist at Sep 18, 2012 7:34:55 PM] |
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The download itself is fine, but when I try to open the installer, it opens in Text Editor and does nothing but refuse to close unless I hit alt+f4 for 5 minuets. Help? Hi Derpatron, With Ubuntu 12.04 just open the Ubuntu Software Center, do a search for BOINC and you get the ready to go installer package which works much better than the .sh kit from Berkeley. |
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mikey
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The download itself is fine, but when I try to open the installer, it opens in Text Editor and does nothing but refuse to close unless I hit alt+f4 for 5 minuets. Help? Hi Derpatron, With Ubuntu 12.04 just open the Ubuntu Software Center, do a search for BOINC and you get the ready to go installer package which works much better than the .sh kit from Berkeley. When I did that it couldn't find the newest version, just an older cached version. I too ended up with the sh version and I too had problems and ended up giving up, I am NOT a Linux guy and your link above probably would have helped alot!   |
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sunfolk
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Please just ignore the "Brand spanking new" Berkeley version of BOINC.
----------------------------------------Stick with your Linux distribution approved version and you will be fine! Upgrading to the latest Berkley version does NOT improve your efficiency or safety or points total. Just chill man and crunch on ...    |
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Former Member
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The download itself is fine, but when I try to open the installer, it opens in Text Editor and does nothing but refuse to close unless I hit alt+f4 for 5 minuets. Help? Hi Derpatron, With Ubuntu 12.04 just open the Ubuntu Software Center, do a search for BOINC and you get the ready to go installer package which works much better than the .sh kit from Berkeley. When I did that it couldn't find the newest version, just an older cached version. I too ended up with the sh version and I too had problems and ended up giving up, I am NOT a Linux guy and your link above probably would have helped alot! To refresh the repository cache do in terminal "sudo apt-get update". This will ask for a password. Just enter your user password and it will give temp admin rights. Then Synaptic/USC are up to date to the latest. Derpatron, please just proceed to go the the Ubuntu Software Center [on the Ubuntu menu or type the name into the Dash search box of the interface. A partial type-in is enough like "Ubuntu Soft" and it will pop up the available programs. USC will give you the latest "best" integrated version for the specific Ubuntu, in your case 12.04, which is likely 7.0.27+dfsg-5ubuntu0.12.04.1 release by the official Ubuntu package maintainers. This is the one I've been very *reliably* been running on 11.10 Oneiric. For Ubuntu Quantal (12.10 beta) there's a 7.0.34 build on offer IIRC, but that has not yet been ported back to Ubuntu Precise (12.04). |
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