Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client on CentOS 8.
What is boinc-client
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open- source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in the form of “volunteer†computing and “desktop Grid†computing. It is well suited for problems which are often described as “trivially parallelâ€. BOINC is the underlying software used by projects such as SETI@home, Einstein@Home, ClimatePrediciton.net, the World Community Grid, and many other distributed computing projects. This package installs the BOINC client software, which will allow your computer to participate in one or more BOINC projects, using your spare computer time to search for cures for diseases, model protein folding, study global warming, discover sources of gravitational waves, and many other types of scientific and mathematical research.
We can use yum or dnf to install boinc-client on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boinc-client.
Install boinc-client 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-client using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install boinc-client
Install boinc-client 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-client using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install boinc-client
How To Uninstall boinc-client on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the boinc-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove boinc-client
boinc-client Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/36x11-common_xhost-boinc
/etc/bash_completion.d/boinc-client
/etc/boinc-client/config.properties
/etc/logrotate.d/boinc-client
/usr/bin/boinc
/usr/bin/boinc_client
/usr/bin/boinccmd
/usr/bin/switcher
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/8869b8fe18ffcdc20468b06294e96923f01ab9
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/360ed2c31a8a9f43e62ec6a6616c31cb57aea5
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/360ed2c31a8a9f43e62ec6a6616c31cb57aea5.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/a4fd3fbff8a7b4478492d2b45fba1f0a7b86ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/85c572212c4e8b2149ca3d21f86aa8555150e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/15331599c827154f2e34d58a1efae123979cba
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/3a9e7779f9b5f992a45a36c1672fe9d2699671
/usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service
/usr/lib64/libboinc_api.so.7
/usr/lib64/libboinc_api.so.7.16.11
/usr/lib64/libboinc_graphics2.so.7
/usr/lib64/libboinc_graphics2.so.7.16.11
/usr/lib64/libboinc_opencl.so.7
/usr/lib64/libboinc_opencl.so.7.16.11
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/boinc-client/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa_IR/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/BOINC-Client.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/boinc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/boinccmd.1.gz
/var/lib/boinc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
