installing software from Intrepid

[David Fox]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> I googled your answer and found some interesting reading about this. I worked
> the numbers a bit more and got it to work. However, this isnt the solution. To

Well, you may find that installing boinc from intrepid requires a
bunch of dependencies from intrepid. That's not too hard to believe.
At this time, it may not be a good idea to dist-upgrade to intrepid,
which is more or less what you are doing if it wants 70+ packages.
Kind of unrelated, but the other day on a lark I grabbed the ISOs of
intrepid alpha (i386 & alternate), and neither booted up (in
Virtualbox), even though the md5sums were perfect. I got a kernel
panic in init first thing on trying to run it in vbox.



So in this case I'd just get the latest client from setiathome and
install manually. I did it that way. Seems to work fine, although I've
once experienced the problem you addressed in another post (client
doesn't attach on startup). When that happens, I restart boinc or just
let it run and the client gets attached.

I've been running boinc on ubuntu since maybe 2 months now (new
x86_64). And I ran it for sometime on my older 32-bit mobo, but that
ran Debian.