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FWIW, all the linux installs of BOINC I've done were done using TBar's all-in-one style package, rather than trying to do an apt-install from some repository. When necessary, BOINC installs are done by just going to git hub and downloading the new binaries and copying them to the directory,

Been working fine for me here on numerous machines for the last 5 years or so.

I could put together some info on that, and maybe a download, if there's any interest.

Currently running BOINC Linux Client version: 7.24.3 on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and NVIDIA 535.171.04.

Do you have a website that details TBAR's procedure?

I can probably throw something together. I should probably revisit that now that I'm a bit better versed on it all.

Guess I should have read the thread better, re Tomahawk's question.

If I got it right (this time) he has a working BOINC installation, which connects to the project as it should, but doesn't get work from E@H. He needs help getting work to flow to a project he has already connected to? If so, in

      BOINC Manager -> Tools -> Event log

capture the log info of a connection to E@H, and we can help you see why there's no work.

In that case, the discussion of installation from repository versus the all-in-one is totally moot. Sorry for the trip down that rabbit hole, But I am going to put together a page on the all-in-one,  once I have finished updating it to 7.24.3, tested it, and documented it better, if just for my own amusement.

One thing that occurred to me, however. I have not yet updated BOINC on either my Windoze or Ubuntu boxes to version 8, as that seems premature. I did, however, do a repository install onto a test box running Ubuntu 24.04:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 40254C9B29853EA6
sudo apt-add-repository deb https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/linux/nightly/buster buster main
sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager

Having succeeded at that, there's no reason the 8.0 binaries could not be replaced with 7.24.3 versions, if 8.0 is not yet ready for prime time. Would be an incredibly quick install, and a way around the fact that I doubt the Berkeley repository will be updated for legacy releases.

For NVidia installs the appropriate drives should be installed before installing BOINC, in general:

sudo ubuntu-drivers list
sudo ubuntu-drivers install		(install best match), or
sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia:NNN	(specific version from list)
sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit 	    (CUDA apps)
sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1 opencl-icd  (OpenCL apps)

Having said that, it's probably ok to install them after, and do a restart to make BOINC see them.

I think that would help alot, thanks!!