I have abandoned Windows 2000 for Red Hat 9, which I have been running for a little over a week now, and am very happy with, although I am still VERY green. I would like to run seti@home on my Linux machine, but can't seem to find adequate information, starting with which packet to download from seti. I am running an 800mhz PIII Coppermine, and would greatly appreciate any help I could get, since I am new to the command line side of things.

Also, anyone who has never been there should check out seti for themselves at setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Thanks for the help

You can download the Linux Seti client from:

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html

--jeremy

Right, and I think I know which one to download, but how do I install it?

Download the i686-pc-linux-gnu version. It will be a .TAR file, which is sort of like a .ZIP file... It has a number of files packaged into one. Untar the file with...

tar -xf filename.tar

This will produce a directory containing the files in the .TAR. Copy them to whatever dir from which you want to run SETI@home. You can then run the client from the command-line...

cd /wherever/you/put/it
./setiathome

There are also add-ons you can download to control it easier.

thanks a ton, ranger. your info got me up and running with no problems. i especially appreciated the detail in your instructions. a million thanks.

valued customer