How To Install boinc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is boinc
boinc 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.
This package depends both on the BOINC core client program that is required to participate in any project that uses BOINC, and the BOINC Manager, a graphical monitor and control utility for the BOINC core client.
There are three methods to install boinc
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install boinc
Install boinc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install boinc
Install boinc 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install boinc
How To Uninstall boinc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the boinc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove boinc
Uninstall boinc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall boinc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc
Remove boinc Configurations and Data
To remove boinc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge boinc
Remove boinc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove boinc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.