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215 lines
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Installing BOINC
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This document describes the generic installation procedure for BOINC
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The installation procedure itself is broken into seven steps
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1. Downloading the Source
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2. Ensuring proper programs are installed
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3. Setting environment variables
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4. Configuration
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5. Building
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6. Testing (optional but strongly recommended)
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7. Final install (optional)
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Please note that BOINC does not support make uninstall and probably will not do
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so in the near future. Currently, BOINC is installed into the /usr/local/boinc/
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directory structure, so to uninstall, simply remove all files from this
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location.
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Downloading the Source
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BOINC is distributed via CVS and tarballs compressed with gzip.
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The BOINC distribution includes the scheduling servers, both in CGI and FastCGI
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versions, the application library, the client, the test scripts, sample
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applications, and test scripts.
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Unpack the distribution in one directory using the commands
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% gunzip boinc.tar.gz
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% tar xf boinc.tar
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If installing from CVS, download the entire CVS tree.
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Ensuring proper programs are installed
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In order for the BOINC server to run, Apache web server and mySQL database
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server must both be installed and shared memory must be enabled, with a shared
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memory segment size of at least 32 megabytes (more is reccomended).
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Setting environment variables
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BOINC depends on several environment variables to compile and run.
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BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR /usr/local/boinc/download
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This directory should be set to be web accessible via Apache. If you plan on
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using a different directory, be sure to set the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR properly
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so as to point to the correct directory. It is important that this directory
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is different from the BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR.
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BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR /usr/local/boinc/upload
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This directory should be set to be web accessible via Apache. If you plan on
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using a different directory, be sure to set the BOINC_UPLOAD_DIR properly
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so as to point to the correct directory. It is important that this directory is
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different from the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR.
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BOINC_PLATFORM_NAME
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This is set when configure is run in the client directory. It is used by the
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client to determine the name of the BOINC client.
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BOINC_EMAIL mgary@ssl.berkeley.edu
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This is currently used by one of the test scripts. It is not critical for the
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running of BOINC.
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BOINC_URL_BASE http://localhost/download
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This should be set to a url that points to the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR. Currently,
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this is the same as the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_URL, although it may change in the
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future.
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BOINC_KEY_DIR /usr/local/boinc/key_dir
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This should be set to a directory in which the public and private keys for
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BOINC are to be created. If you wish to place this in a different directory,
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change the variable appropriately.
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BOINC_KEY 0xdadacafe
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This should be set to any 32 bit hex value desired. To run multiple instances
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of BOINC on one machine, each instance needs to have a different BOINC_KEY
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compiled into it.
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BOINC_DB_NAME boinc
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This should be set to a valid database name for mySQL.
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BOINC_USER user
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This should be set to the user name of the person running BOINC.
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BOINC_UPLOAD_URL http://localhost/cgi-bin/file_upload_handler
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This should be set to the url of a valid cgi directory where the BOINC
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scheduling server cgi scripts are located.
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BOINC_DOWNLOAD_URL http://localhost/download
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This should be set to the url of the BOINC_DOWNLOAD_DIR.
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BOINC_MASTER_URL http:\\\/\\\/localhost\\\/index.html
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This should be set to the master url of your project. The master url is a file
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that contains xml tags with information about where scheduling servers can be
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found. A sample scheduler tag would be
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<scheduler>http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi</scheduler>
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where the url contained within the scheduler tags points to the BOINC
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scheduling server cgi scripts.
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Configuration
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Like most open source software, BOINC must be configured before it can be
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built. This document describes the recommended configuration procedure for
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both native and cross targets.
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We use srcdir to refer to the toplevel source directory for BOINC.
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In general, BOINC need not be built into a seperate directory from the source.
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Second, when configuring a native system, either cc or gcc must be in your path
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or you must set CC in your environment variables before running configure.
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Otherwise, the configuration scripts may fail.
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To configure BOINC:
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% cd srcdir
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% ./configure
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Building
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Now that BOINC is configured, you are ready to build BOINC.
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It is necessary to use GNU make at the moment, as the RSAEuro libraries will
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not compiler under other versions of make.
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Some commands executed when making BOINC may fail (return a nonzero status) and
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be ignored by make. The most common of these failures is when making RSAEuro.
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It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files. The most
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common of these warnings is statement with no effect, due to the use of assert
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in the scheduling server, and can be safely ignored.
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Often, make will fail in the srcdir/sched directory with the error sh: cc not
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found. If this occurs, simply cd to srcdir/sched and make. This should resolve
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the problem.
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To make BOINC:
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% cd srcdir
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% make
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Testing
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Once BOINC has been built, environment variables are set, and permissions have
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been granted, we encourage you to run tests to ensure that BOINC is working
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properly before being installed. The tests are located in the srcdir/test/
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directory, and are all php scripts.
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test_suite.php
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This is a script that will run several of the scripts within the test
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directory. If there are any file mismatches or errors, there has likely been an
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error in setting up BOINC.
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test_uc.php
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This is a script that runs the uc application. The files should match upon
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completion of the script.
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test_concat.php
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This sript is similar to the test_uc.php script, except that it runs the concat
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application.
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test_water.php
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This script tests some of the water mark funtionality in the BOINC client. If
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test_uc.php does not work, this script will also fail.
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test_rsc.php
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This script tests to ensure that the server will not send unfeasable work units
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to a client. Should this script fail, it is either due to your computer having
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more than 1 terabyte of available memory and similar amounts of available disk
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space or improper configuration of BOINC.
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test_api.php
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This script should run even if BOINC has been installed improperly. As long as
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a build has occurred, this script should work. This script tests the api and
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a restartible minimal application without an end-to-end test of BOINC.
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test_uc_slow.php
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This script is similar to the test_uc.php script, except that it uses the
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uc_slow application. The client must be run manually for this script. Currently
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there is a bug in BOINC that causes this script to fail.
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test_stderr.php
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This script uses the uc application to check client error reporting.
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Installing
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Now that BOINC has been built and tested, you can optionally install it in
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/usr/local/boinc.
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If the location of any of the CGI elements of the scheduling server are to be
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changed, the appropriate environment variables must be updated and the code
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must be rebuilt with
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$ cd srcdir; make clean; configure; make
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You can install BOINC in /usr/local/boinc with
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% cd srcdir; make install
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You may also want to run the test scripts now that you have installed BOINC to
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ensure that all environment variables have been properly set and compiled into
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the code.
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If you had any issues with BOINC, please let us know. If you come across any
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bugs, please post them to our bugtraq or email us.
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