Request for BOINC guide for noobs

[aolofsson]

There are now 10,000 Parallella boards shipped. Wouldn't it be great if they could all be running BOINC 24/7...

Could someone (with more experience than me) write up a simple guide for the optimal way of installing and running BOINC?

Questions I have for the experts:
-is it good enough to install from sudo apt-get?
-command line versus the manager?
-recommendations for projects to attach to?
-should it be included in the basic released image?

Andreas

[Claggy]

[Claggy]

The fix for the dependency problem is to add trusty-updates to the sources.list in /etc/apt

Just add the following two lines:

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-updates main universe
deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ trusty-updates main universe

I get ~150Mb of downloads with this one change, hopefully it'll improve Firefox's reliability too,

Claggy

[aolofsson]

Nice! Thank you for the feedback!! I'll try it as well and see how it goes.

[Claggy]

[MarkjBOINC]

[Claggy]

[Len]

It is still broken, I tried adding the two repositories and it errored out. Has anyone done any research as to what is breaking it? Mine broke with:

errors were encountered while processing:
libpam-systemd:armhf
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returnd and error code(1)

I'm interested in getting the neon acceleration working, I would think a couple of processors with neon accelerators would process video as well as a Raspberry Pi with one processor. I'm thinking only one processor is really running the Linux right now, but could be totally wrong.

gstreamer1.0 improved the youtube playback some, but it still has no sound and although Linux recognizes video and audio files and will start a suitable program when double clicked on, it doesn't actually play the file.

[Claggy]