What distro are you using there may be other options if its debian based. If not i have no idea what next unless someone unpackages it and mails it to you or something.

I'm using gunzip 1.1.1 (1 Jun 93)
Copilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H

What about your tar and bash version? (I'm assuming your shell is bash).

What about your tar and bash version? (I'm assuming your shell is bash).

Not sure how to bring up ther version with tar, but the MAN page shows:
HP-UX Release 10.20: July 1996

bash:
GNU bash, version 1.13.2 -CWRU

My command interpreter is ksh.

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What about your tar and bash version? (I'm assuming your shell is bash).

Not sure how to bring up ther version with tar, but the MAN page shows:
HP-UX Release 10.20: July 1996

bash:
GNU bash, version 1.13.2 -CWRU

My command interpreter is ksh.

Huh ... are you sure your box is Linux? It might be some other variant of Unix. What does

uname -a

print out?

System utilities (such as gunzip, tar, etc) usually take command line option --version if they are GNU by origin.

Bash, for one, is ancient.

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So is your gunzip ...

One of linux boxes I have access to gives:

$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.16
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ gunzip --version
gunzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation
Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Compilation options:
DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT ASMV
Written by Jean-loup Gailly.
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Metod ...

Huh ... are you sure your box is Linux? It might be some other variant of Unix. What does

uname -a

print out?

I write this in fear of me being a total idiot; uname -a prints out:

HP-UX whrcs4 B.10.20 A 9000/785 unknown


If boinc_5.8.15_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh is the wrong version, what version should I be using?

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Compiling your own is the only choice; there aren't official binaries for HP-UX. You'll have to do the same with SETI application, not only BOINC.

Compiling your own is the only choice; there aren't official binaries for HP-UX. You'll have to do the same with SETI application, not only BOINC.

Wonderful. :(

I tried that. Unfortunetly my C compiler cannot create executables, and I don't have root password. Looks like 1 less server to use.

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Try looking on this page of third party complied binaries. I only scanned it briefly.

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Kathryn :o)

I tried that. Unfortunetly my C compiler cannot create executables, and I don't have root password. Looks like 1 less server to use.

99.99% of the times ./configure says your C compiler cannot create executables, it actually means you have no C compiler installed.