How To Install boinctui on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinctui on Ubuntu.

What is boinctui

boinctui is:

boinctui 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

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

Install boinctui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install boinctui

Install boinctui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install boinctui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install boinctui

Install boinctui 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 boinctui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install boinctui

How To Uninstall boinctui on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the boinctui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove boinctui

Uninstall boinctui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall boinctui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinctui

Remove boinctui Configurations and Data

To remove boinctui configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge boinctui

Remove boinctui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove boinctui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinctui

Dependencies

boinctui have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libexpat1
• libgcc-s1
• libgnutls-openssl27
• libncursesw6
• libstdc++6
• libtinfo6

References

• boinctui website

Summary

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