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Learn to contribute to science using BOINC software

Important scientific projects need you!

After completing this challenge you will be able to participate in scientific projects which are working to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars and conduct other types of research all over the world. You will be able to contribute processing time on your PC or laptop, and through the message boards of the projects, you will have the chance to learn more about the research that is motivating these projects.

This challenge will show you how to download, install and run the software you need to enable you to join the volunteer computing projects that are supported by the open source platform, BOINC.

P Time it should take to complete:
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    KaMii
    KaMii at Become a Citizen Scientist
    posted message: I am trying to get my BOINC.SlackBuild script to compile the gui but have been running into compile errors. If anyone wants to try and help getting the gui to c ompile on Slackware linux please visit https://github.com/KaMiila/BOINC-SlackBuild and submit your changes to the upstream git. As you can see right now, I have the gui turned off in the build script. As a note on the gui, you cannot use the stock Cmake with Slackware, you need to upgrade Cmake, the best way to do this is to grab the latest STABLE release of Cmake, edit the cmake.SlackBuild in the /sources directory on the install dvd, tell it to use the new version you just downloaded, then run the script. Then installpkg /tmp/foo.t?z
    13 Jun 2012 via courses.p2pu.org
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  • Daniel Lombraña González said:

    Hi,

    Why is it failing in to compile the GUI? Is it because of the wxWidgets or GTK2 libraries?

     

    Daniel

    on June 14, 2012, 2:49 a.m.

    KaMii said:

    Ok, the latest svn compiles the gui just fine, but now I am getting error messages once the gui loads:

     

     

    execvp(/home/pulsar/boinc, --redirectio, --launched_by_manager) failed with error 2!
     
    It also fails to connect to localhost
     
    I tried running the boinc gui manager as root from a terminal inside xfce4 and It spit out the same error.  First I thought it just needed root access, maybe it requires a group for the user to be added to?
     
    I ran an strace and got a phone book of junk that cannot be posted even on pastebin, its just too large.
     
    (This build script has been uploaded to my github, if any want to test -debug)
    on June 16, 2012, 11:27 p.m. in reply to Daniel Lombraña González

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