Hi,

This seems like it should be a common question but I guess I can't quite form the right google query to give me any meaningful results.

I am trying to install Setiathome/boinc under ubuntu for PPC so off I go to the Seti site which links me to an external source for the client, I've un tar'd the original download leaving me with the below file structure:

.:
boinc_4.27-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
projects

./projects:
setiathome.berkeley.edu

./projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu:
app_info.xml
setiathome-4.7.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu

So by the looks of it to a newbie I'd somehow run boinc_4.27....-gnu so I try the below command and get the error back cannot execute binary file.

bill@bill:~$ sudo sh ./boinc_4.27-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
Password:
./boinc_4.27-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu: ./boinc_4.27-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu: cannot execute binary file

Hopefully one of you nice people will be able to point this stupid windows user in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

Bill

Forgot to say I've changed the permissions to the boinc file to 777.

Are you sure you downloaded the right file? Can you give the address?
I'm not on ppc but the file I got was named boinc_5.2.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh and I just did:
sh -x ./boinc_5.2.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh
and it unpacked to the current directory along with instructions how and what to run...

5 post minimum to post urls, please ignore

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i'm nearly there

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response!

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php linked me to http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml for Linux/PPC I then donwloaded the archive in this section - http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/bo...n.shtml#gnuppc. (boinc_seti_ppc7450_linux.tar.bz2)

Bill

Got it running!

I was messing around and accidently missed out the sh from the command so it was 'sudo ./boinc_4.27-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu' and it worked!

Now I just need to find out about the error I'm getting from that, off to the Seti forums I guess ;-)

This is what I did:


bill@bill:~/boinc$ sudo ./boinc_4.27-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
2006-02-12 00:56:22 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.27 for powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
2006-02-12 00:56:22 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2006-02-12 00:56:22 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
2006-02-12 00:56:22 [---] GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180

Thanks for your help!

BDC

one needs to know how to tackle this obstacle - did not know about this limit, sorry

when I run it gives:
./boinc-5.2.14.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

I suppose this is the executable and you use it just like any program:
if it is in your PATH - you just type the programs name
if it is not in your PATH - you type the PATH to it and then the name
from whithin the directory it created when unpacking it this would be: