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onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year agoDo you have a recipe or script or something? The docker image seems to assume you’re running it on your own computer and will be configuring it with some GUI? But I’m not going to install xfce on my server and RDP into it to get boinc running.
thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You don’t need the GUI, the client does all the work. I use a Debian container, so just
sudo apt-get install boinc-client.Once that’s installed, you go to the project (in my case, World Grid) and setup your account. As part of that, it will give you a URL and account key. Then back on your server, you use the
boinccmdto–project_attachthe URL and key.onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
that’s a better description than their documentation honestly, ty