I'm experimenting with the idea of changing my workstation from Ubuntu to Scientific Linux 6.2 and I'm having trouble running the boinc manager, the client seems to run so if someone could direct me to command line instructions for attaching it to Einstein at Home, my immediate problem goes away.

I have a clean install of SL6.2, actually it took about 6 of those to figure out how to get NVIDIA drivers to work.

Then there is a lot of stuff for the LIGO Data Grid reference platform, which I mention because downgrading packages presents a big problem.

Then to get BOINC manager to run I've added:

• GTK to find libwx_gtk (something) sorry I didn't write down the exact name of the missing library
  
• OpenSSL 0.9.8 compatibility libraries, fortunately they can coexist with the installed version " OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010"
  
• Now I'm stuck on libnotify.so.4, I have:
  Installed Packages
  Name : libnotify
  Arch : x86_64
  Version : 0.5.0
  Release : 1.el6
  

I'd appreciate any advice on how to proceed.

Joe

At the Einstein at Home message board I found other have had problems with SL6.

I have a partial solution to run the client from the command line using boinccmd and running boinc manager on another computer. Instruction for these are in the user manual wiki http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool and http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Controlling_BOINC_remotely


I still have an issue with the GPU. It is discovered and listed on the project page but no driver version and no work for it.

I'd appreciate any suggestion on that issue.

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