It says it cannot find the BOINC file I believe.
that did the trick for me,and i wonder why it doesnt work,im not that used to ubuntu till now^^
there is also a manual way, which will allow you to also use the newest versions.
in this example the download folder is named "Downloads"and found directly in the root
the Boinc File is named in this example: "boinc_x.y.z_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh"
download boinc from the site and execute this in the command prompt, but change the file and the folder according to your system
cd ~/Downloads
sh ./boinc_x.y.z_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
now you make a new home for your boinc with:
sudo mkdir /opt/Boinc
after that, the file is unpacked in the "Downloads" folder and you have to copy all of them to /opt/boinc with:
sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/BOINC/* /opt/Boinc
the next command adds all boinc files and directories to the user "Boinc"
sudo chown -hR boinc:boinc /opt/Boinc
Now the Start Script needs to know where boinc is located, to be able to start it as service upon boot. Therefore you edit /etc/default/boinc-client with an editor with root access
the original storage location gets marked out with a # like that:
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"
then you write the new location
BOINC_CLIENT="/opt/Boinc/boinc"
should look like this:
# This file is /etc/default/boinc-client, it is a configuration file for the
# /etc/init.d/boinc-client init script.
# Set this to 1 to enable and to 0 to disable the init script.
ENABLED="1"
# The BOINC core client will be started with the permissions of this user.
BOINC_USER="boinc"
# This is the data directory of the BOINC core client.
BOINC_DIR="/var/lib/boinc-client"
# This is the location of the BOINC core client, that the init script uses.
# If you do not want to use the client program provided by the boinc-client
# package, you can specify here an alternative client program.
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/local/bin/boinc"
#BOINC_CLIENT="/usr/bin/boinc"
BOINC_CLIENT="/opt/Boinc/boinc"
# Here you can specify additional options to pass to the BOINC core client.
# Type 'boinc --help' or 'man boinc' for a full summary of allowed options.
#BOINC_OPTS="--return_results_immediately --allow_remote_gui_rpc"
BOINC_OPTS=""
as last step, you start boinc with:
sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start
if my post was not helpful enough, here is the original i just translated from german:
Boinc Manuell
hope i could help
I hear that IRE ships much faster than what they quote on the site.
If you want them though just let me know. I should still have two left.
