You should now have BOINC with the familiar user interface like in Windows. It should now list BOINC Manager as a result, click on it, install, done! In Ubuntu Software, click on the magnifiing glass in the upper left corner and search for BOINC. (You can find other apps by clicking on the button with the 3x3 white dots, which is like the Start button in Windows.) Look for the orage bag icon on the left with the 'A' on it, that is the lanch icon vor the 'Ubuntu Software Center'. To install BOINC or any other popular software, there is no need to use the terminal at all. :(Īfter installation of Ubuntu, its desktop should look like this. This baby will at least learn some things about Linux I guess. especially when you are used to the simplicity of Windows when it comes to installing software.Īppreciate your help fellow crunchers. I find I have to chip away at it because I find it all a bit depressing. so I have made progress but have hit another wall. I feel completely out of my depth trying to figure out a program that most other people seem to know quite easily. I've found it and I see some files called BOINC and BOINCMGR etc. It took me quite a while just to FIND that folder! Grrrrr.

Again, with help I was told I'd find the files in a usr/bin folder. Ok.got it installed.or did I? I now have no idea where it was installed. (I had to find out what a terminal was) (sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager) I couldn't find that simple information ANYWHERE! Not even on the BOINC website! Then a team mate told me what to type into a terminal to install it. I've no idea how to do the most basic things with it.įor instance, when I downloaded the BOINC program, it was just a shell extension. the issue rsNeutrino, I have is that I've never even looked at Linux before. I found some time to install a VM and with much pain I worked out how to install Ubuntu.

Ubuntu install virtualbox for boinc