I downloaded 'boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and am trying to unzip it using 'gunzip -d boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and I get the message 'gunzip: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: unknown suffix -- ignored'. What am I doing wrong? Also even when I am SuperUser I am unable to put the downloaded file into its own folder where I would prefer to unzip it. Thanks for any help.

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I downloaded 'boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and am trying to unzip it using 'gunzip -d boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and I get the message 'gunzip: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: unknown suffix -- ignored'. What am I doing wrong?

It is a self extractable file. Do a "sh ./$FILENAME" to install it.
Look at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/sea.php.

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Now all I get when typing 'sh ./$boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' is: sh: ./.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: No such file or directory. I did a 'dir' and the file is there using Terminal. Don't know.

I downloaded 'boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and am trying to unzip it using 'gunzip -d boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and I get the message 'gunzip: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: unknown suffix -- ignored'. What am I doing wrong?

It is a self extractable file. Do a "sh ./$FILENAME" to install it.
Look at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/sea.php.

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Now all I get when typing 'sh ./$boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' is: sh: ./.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: No such file or directory. I did a 'dir' and the file is there using Terminal. Don't know.

I downloaded 'boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and am trying to unzip it using 'gunzip -d boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and I get the message 'gunzip: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: unknown suffix -- ignored'. What am I doing wrong?

It is a self extractable file. Do a "sh ./$FILENAME" to install it.
Look at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/sea.php.

Sorry, in Unix $FILENAME is a variable, I mean, that you should set in the filename in this variable...
So you must execute "sh ./boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu"

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Sorry, duplicate post.

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I downloaded 'boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and am trying to unzip it using 'gunzip -d boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' and I get the message 'gunzip: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: unknown suffix -- ignored'. What am I doing wrong?

It is a self extractable file. Do a "sh ./$FILENAME" to install it.
Look at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/sea.php.

Ok, I'm TOTALLY NEW to Linux and just installed Redhat 9. Downloaded the self-extracting file to a directory but now don't know where or how to get to a command line so I can do this "sh ./$filename"!

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Now all I get when typing 'sh ./$boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu' is: sh: ./.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: No such file or directory. I did a 'dir' and the file is there using Terminal. Don't know.

All you need to do from your terminal window is to:

chmod +x boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu
./boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu

Or substitute whatever that file is called.

The "chmod +x" makes the file executable, and the "./" runs it with your default shell (usually "bash").

You should then see "tar" uncompress the archive and away you go...


See here for step-by-step install instructions.


Welcome to Boinc,

Good luck,
Martin

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Hi,
First I advise to download BOINC 5.2.8 which is easier to use (and you can run it in command-line, if you want)
1.Download BOINC 5.2.8
2.Put the file in /home/your_login
3.Open a command-line box (bash i.e)
4.type: cd /home/your_login
5.type: sh boinc_5.2.8_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
6.type: cd home/your_login/BOINC
7.type: ./boinc (if you don't want to use the manager, type ./boinc -attach_project <URL> <key>: you have to replace <URL> by the url of the project: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu and replace <key> by the ID key you received by email when creating/migrating your account)
8.Open a second command-line box and type: ./boincmgr (or double-click on the BOINC Manager icon in the BOINC directory)
9.You should see the BOINC manager: click on "project" and select "attach to project"

A command-line box is a program, like Konsole in KDE, Bash, Xterm or whatever: It can usually be found in the Menu->system->Terminal (sorry I don't know Red Hat)
You can find autostart scripts here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/bare_core.php
HTH

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Arnaud