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kffitzgerald
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 29, 2011 Post Count: 222 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Okies guys, I am totally new to Ubuntu & Linux, have just installed Ubuntu 13 - also have installed and running Boinc 7... however, I don't see the Boinc manager I am used to in Windows machines, am I missing something? Do I need to download and add something else and if so what do I need, any recommendations? I would also like to be able to monitor my cpu, memory and system wide temps.... HELP, am totally lost, I realize I will get more familar the more I use it but don't want to burn out the I7 chip in the process
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Former Member
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Hi kffitzgerald,
I am uncertain just how much help you nee. For example, the ps command (described at http://www.softprayog.in/tutorials/ps-command-usage-examples-in-linux or http://www.linfo.org/ps.html) shows you what is running on your system. I am not competent, but if you will give people a feel for your level of knowledge, I am sure that you will be given a lot of help. Lawrence |
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kffitzgerald
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 29, 2011 Post Count: 222 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks Lawrence, my level in windows is very advanced, however my Ubuntu knowledge is limited to just having installed Ubuntu on a virgin system (I72600K-3,4ghz, 16gb Ram, 320GB hdd). and yes I am very spoiled when it comes to Windows GUI, until I actually get into Ubuntu I would like to stick with GUI interfaces wherever possible and eventually get into the command line as time permits
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04 (if it's not broken, etc etc), but I had to install the package "boinc-manager" to be able to monitor BOINC tasks/projects, either on this laptop when I used to crunch on it or any of my remote machines that I do still crunch on.
----------------------------------------For monitoring temperatures, I just use a taskbar-applet (GNOME Sensors Applet) - my laptop does only have sensors for the CPU, though. However, given the newer version of Ubuntu you're using, I'd imagine there's a much newer (and probably improved) alternative...  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Thargor at Nov 4, 2013 4:52:08 PM] |
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Former Member
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There's only one GUI lovers way of installing BOINC on Ubuntu 13.04/13.10. Launch the Ubunto Software Centre from the left hand Unity launch bar, type BOINC into the search box and you get presented with a meta package BOINC installer [v7.2.7 IIRC]. Run that or the boinc/boincmgr separately, then when done, I think it adds the BM icon to the Unity bar. It did for me. If not, move mouse to left top and type BOINC in search bar and launch. Then, right click on BOINC icon on Unity bar to lock it to the bar permanently... just like Woz.
Oh, and if you miss the BM menu... move mouse to top of screen. There's where all Ubu 13.04 and above integrated application menus appear... or hit the Windows key [a good habit of the Windows spoiled folk]. |
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kffitzgerald
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 29, 2011 Post Count: 222 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks SekeRob, all set, your advice was spot-on....now up and crunching - the additional machine should double my daily output
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