Greetings and Salutations from Canada's National Capital.
I have a problem, and I hope there is a genius out there who is up to the task. I have been a BOINCer for a loo-o-ong time, going back to the just SETI days and I ran it on laptops, dewsktops and servers, and I have never seen this one. I run the install script and it creates the BOINC directory and transfers the files into it, per normal. It automagically runs binstall.sh, per normal. I run /home/user/BOINC/run_manager. Not normal. This is what I get.:
/home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: No such file or directory
/home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: Success

File permissions are fine - I have rwx.

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Greetings and Salutations from Canada's National Capital.
I have a problem, and I hope there is a genius out there who is up to the task. I have been a BOINCer for a loo-o-ong time, going back to the just SETI days and I ran it on laptops, desktops and servers, and I have never seen this one. I run the install script and it creates the BOINC directory and transfers the files into it, per normal. It automagically runs binstall.sh, per normal. I run /home/user/BOINC/run_manager. Not normal. This is what I get.:
/home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: No such file or directory
/home/user/BOINC/run_manager: line 1: /home/user/BOINC/boincmgr: Success

File permissions are fine - I have rwx.

Oops. I hit the Enter button instead of the shift button. My keyboard/mouse died and I am reduced to using an ancient wired keyboard and mouse from the '80s. Euuch.
The continuation-
I have tried everything I can think of, and I have a vivid memory and 35 years IT time. I have completely removed it and reinstalled it several times. (This was not with my main data, btw.) I have checked the files to the extent that I can to see if I am missing something. Short of doing a complete reinstall of the OS, I am out of ideas. Anyone else?

The OldSeaDog

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Take this with a grain of salt as I know next to nothing about Linux on a good day. Is it a 64 bit or a 32 bit distro? If a 64 bit, are the 32 bit libs installed?

FWIW, Walt just posted 5.9.5 for Linux. See if the new version will install for you. If not, you can open a Trac ticket.

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Kathryn :o)

Take this with a grain of salt as I know next to nothing about Linux on a good day. Is it a 64 bit or a 32 bit distro? If a 64 bit, are the 32 bit libs installed?

FWIW, Walt just posted 5.9.5 for Linux. See if the new version will install for you. If not, you can open a Trac ticket.

This is my 4th attempt to respond and every time I do my new keyboard manages to screw it up and I have to start again - my fault for gettng a cheap one.

The combination of 32 bit libraries and v. 5.9.5 did it. BTW, the version of BOINC on the website for Linux is 5.8.16, not 5.9.5 (it used to be 5.9.4, and walked back a bit ago. For those Linux fans who are not altogether comfortable with th command line, let me lead you through it. Open up a terminal session (in KDE, there is one under the System menu, in Gnome, under Applications, at least in my distros. Then type the following-

wget http://einstein.ligo.caltech.edu/download/boinc/dl/boinc_5.9.5_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

Once it downloads, you can use the usual route to install it, as it works in your distro.

Enjoy!

OldSeaDog, the Geekosaur

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.