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Installing BOINC on Fedora
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* [7]1 Basic installation
* [8]2 What the installer does
* [9]3 Verify the installation
* [10]4 Set up your accounts
* [11]5 Cuda
* [12]6 Optional setup hints
* [13]7 Uninstallation
* [14]8 Known problems
Basic installation
Installs BOINC Client as a daemon (autostarts the BOINC client at boot
time) and puts a BOINC Manager icon on the applications menu. To install
it, open a terminal, enter:
su -c 'yum install boinc-client boinc-manager'
Give the root password when prompted and be patient while the BOINC
package downloads and installs.
Alternately, fetch the boinc-client and boinc-manager rpm packages (using
for instance rpm.pbone.net), and open them with the Package Installer.
You'll be prompted for the root password as appropriate.
Optional: if you want to have Linux auto-start boinc-client daemon at boot
time, enter /sbin/chkconfig boinc-client on (in Fedora 16), or systemctl
enable boinc-client.service (in Fedora 17). (See [15]Stop or start BOINC
daemon after boot page for helpful commands for managing the daemon)
What the installer does
1. Creates the daemon script. In F16: /etc/init.d/boinc-client. In F17:
/usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service.
2. Places the BOINC binaries (boinc_client, boinc_cmd and boincmgr) in
/usr/bin/.
3. Creates /var/lib/boinc/ for BOINC data files and the slots and
projects directories.
4. Names the daemon boinc-client.
5. Creates a user named boinc. For security, boinc owns the BOINC data
directory (/var/lib/boinc/) and all the data files and sub-directories
it creates in the data directory.
Verify the installation
1. If you elected to have Linux start the daemon at boot time (see step 3
in section Basic installation), logout and reboot Linux now and login
under your normal user account.
2. If you elected to not have Linux start the daemon at boot time, start
the daemon manually with in F16 /sbin/service boinc-client start, in
F17 systemctl start boinc-client.service
3. Open a terminal and enter ps aux | grep boinc to print a partial list
of running processes. You should see boinc_client --daemon in that
list; if not, then something went wrong in the steps above.
Or alternatively in F17 system status boinc-client.service will
display the status of the boinc-client service.
Or pgrep -l boincwill display the procid and daemon name, that is
"2298 boinc_client".
Set up your accounts
To use the GUI to set up your accounts and monitor progress:
* Start boincmgr on the command line or select Applications -> System
Tools -> Boinc Manager from the GNOME menu.
* Select Advanced -> Select computer... from the Boinc Manager menu.
* Put localhost in for "Host name" and the contents of
/var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg for "Password" and hit "OK".
If you do only the basic installation as described above, BOINC manager
will not be able to automatically connect to the client. To connect the
client you will be required to give the GUI RPC password every time you
start BOINC manager. That is not a bug, it is a security feature to
prevent other users from using the manager to manipulate the client,
change your projects, etc.
If you don't want to put the password every time you run the BOINC
manager, you can:
1. disable the password [not recommended]
To make the GUI passwordless, do echo >
/var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg (which replaces the contents of the
file with a newline) and then restart boinc-client (with e.g. in F16:
/sbin/service boinc-client restart, in F17: systemctl restart
boinc-client.service).
2. use the recommended procedure
Boinc (the user named boinc) owns /var/lib/boinc/ and all the files
and directories in it, so you will not be able to edit those files
easily from your regular user account. The steps below add your
username to the boinc group and adjust some permissions so that BOINC
manager will automatically connect to BOINC client whenever you start
the manager from your regular Linux user account. Also, you will be
able to edit files in the BOINC directory without becoming root. As
you type in each command below, substitute your Linux username
wherever you see username. Enter the following commands in a terminal,
as root:
1. /usr/sbin/usermod -G boinc -a username
2. chmod g+rw /var/lib/boinc
3. chmod g+rw /var/lib/boinc/*.*
4. ln -s /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
/home/username/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
Cuda
If you want to use Cuda, install it as described here:
[16]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cuda , and install
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs (to avoid libcuda.so.1: cannot open shared object
file error message) with this:
su -c 'yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs'
You will also need to disable SELinux:
su -c 'setenforce 0'
Optional setup hints
For more information about configuring BOINC in Linux, see [17]Linux file
permissions.
Since Fedora such as version 13 has a firewall switched on by default it
is necessary to configure exceptions allowing BOINC to communicate via the
localhost IP 127.0.0.1 and port 31416.
Uninstallation
In a terminal, enter:
su -c 'yum remove boinc-client boinc-manager'
Known problems
boinc-client sometimes has problems connecting to the network, if the
network connection comes up after the client has already started. This is
a known BOINC bug, which is filed as [18]#707.
In the meantime, you can fix this by restarting boinc-client. On the
command line, as root, do /sbin/service boinc-client restart. Alternately,
from the GNOME menu, you can choose System -> Administration -> Services
and then stop and start the boinc-client service.
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