How To Install boinc-tui on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-tui on CentOS 8.
What is boinc-tui
boinc-tui is a fullscreen text mode control tool for BOINC client It can manage local and remote clients (via boinc RPC), and allows you to switch between clients with a hot key. boinctui uses curses library and provides the following features * Fullscreen curses based text user interface * Switch between several BOINC clients hosts via hot key * View task list (run, queue, suspend e.t.c state) * View message list * Suspend/Resume/Abort tasks * Update/Suspend/Resume/Reset/No New Task/Allow New Task for projects * Toggle activity state GPU and CPU tasks * Run benchmarks * Manage BOINC client on remote hosts via boinc_gui protocol
We can use yum or dnf to install boinc-tui on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boinc-tui.
Install boinc-tui on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install boinc-tui using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install boinc-tui
Install boinc-tui on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install boinc-tui using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install boinc-tui
How To Uninstall boinc-tui on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the boinc-tui package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove boinc-tui
boinc-tui Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/boinctui
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/1f6687c0fcfa2ed3e57bfb37624d7b26fc57d5
/usr/share/doc/boinc-tui
/usr/share/doc/boinc-tui/changelog
/usr/share/doc/boinctui/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/boinc-tui
/usr/share/licenses/boinc-tui/gpl-3.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/boinctui.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-tui on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.