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Hi guys
Have any of you installed BOINC on a lightweight linux distro? I'm looking to install a very light-weight linux distro for the purpose of BOINC only on my netbook. I've had a quick/brief look at tinycore and crunchbang - but was having issues with missing libraries etc (which I guess is understandable, but has anyone had any experience installing BOINC on any lightweight distros with minimal work required to install libraries etc)? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated - especially if you can advise what libraries were missing and how you installed them. |
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Mgruben
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Check the Arch Linux wiki entry on BOINC, it has a lot of information about the needed dependencies (e.g. some WCG projects need to run 32-bit applications, so you'll at least need multi-architecture support enabled as well as some 32-bit libraries)
----------------------------------------Linky: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC Edit: also, from the Arch User Repository entry, the following packages are installed with boinc (excludes the 32-bit libraries mentioned above): [headless; without xorg dependencies] curl libjpeg-turbo curl (make) freeglut (make) git (make) glu (make) inetutils (make) libnotify (make) libxmu (make) libxslt (make) libxss (make) mesa (make) perl-xml-sax (make) sqlite3 (sqlite) (make) wxgtk2.8 (make) [with xorg dependencies] curl libnotify libxss sqlite3 (sqlite) wxgtk2.8 curl (make) freeglut (make) git (make) glu (make) inetutils (make) libnotify (make) libxmu (make) libxslt (make) libxss (make) mesa (make) perl-xml-sax (make) sqlite3 (sqlite) (make) wxgtk2.8 (make)  [Edit 3 times, last edit by Mgruben at Feb 16, 2014 6:33:25 PM] |
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BobCat13
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On an older single core 32-bit machine, I have Puppy Linux 5.7.1 running Boinc version 7.2.39. The client works right out of the box as all dependencies are satisfied. The manager needed wxWidgets libraries installed, specifically libwxbase2.8-0_2.8.12.1 and libwxgtk2.8-0_2.8.12.1 which were easy to install using the Puppy Package Manager.
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