How To Install boinc-client-opencl on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client-opencl on Ubuntu 22.04. boinc-client-opencl is metapackage for AMD/ATI OpenCL-savvy BOINC client and manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client-opencl on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is boinc-client-opencl

boinc-client-opencl is:

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. The developers’ web site at the University of Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.

Regular users (righteously) often find it an unbearable nuisance to care for the configuration of BOINC for the OpenCL-savvy AMD/ATI graphics cards. This package adds a series of dependencies from the non-free section to the regular boinc package. This also meant this binary package to be redistributed in the contrib section of Debian.

There are three methods to install boinc-client-opencl on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install boinc-client-opencl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install boinc-client-opencl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install boinc-client-opencl

Install boinc-client-opencl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install boinc-client-opencl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install boinc-client-opencl

Install boinc-client-opencl Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install boinc-client-opencl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install boinc-client-opencl

How To Uninstall boinc-client-opencl on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the boinc-client-opencl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove boinc-client-opencl

Uninstall boinc-client-opencl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall boinc-client-opencl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc-client-opencl

Remove boinc-client-opencl Configurations and Data

To remove boinc-client-opencl configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge boinc-client-opencl

Remove boinc-client-opencl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove boinc-client-opencl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc-client-opencl

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client-opencl package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.