SETI@home and BOINC on Linux

Yes, I finally got them to compile and work on Mandrake Linux... Here are two screen shots of BOINC manager running SETI@home with the OpenGL window:

BOINC manager and the OpenGL graphics (1280x1024 - 162Kb)
Maximized OpenGL window (1280x1024 - 303Kb)

To obtain the above results on your Mandrake 10.2 (AKA Mandriva LE2005) system, you will need the following binary packages (pick up only one of the four boincseti packages, basing your choice on the type of processor of your system):

boincseti-4.18-2gdf.athlon.rpm (2.4Mb): BOINC and SETI@home (xsetiathome) clients, optimized for generic 32bits Athlon processors.
boincseti-4.18-2gdf.xp.athlon.rpm (2.4Mb): BOINC and SETI@home (xsetiathome) clients, optimized for Athlon-XP processors.
boincseti-4.18-2gdf.k8.athlon.rpm (2.4Mb): BOINC and SETI@home (xsetiathome) clients, optimized for Athlon-64 processors (with some SSE2 floating-point arythmetic, i.e. compiled with -mfpmath=sse gcc option).
boincseti-4.18-2gdf.i686.rpm (2.4Mb): BOINC and SETI@home (xsetiathome) clients, optimized for generic i686 processors.
libMesaGLU1-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (263Kb): The GLU shared library.
libMesaglut3-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (119Kb): The glut shared library.

Please, note that these packages may not work (or work very slowly) on your system, depending on the graphic card you got and its GLX driver... I run them with an ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card (on my Atlhon XP 2.1Ghz system), and on an ATI mobility Radeon 9600 (on my mobile Athlon-64 2.2GHz system), under the Xorg 6.8.2 X11 server (the one shipped with Mandriva LE2005), and with the fglrx drivers v8.14.13 and v8.16.20 for Xorg 6.8, as provided on ATI's web site. If you encounter problems with the OpenGL graphic window of xsetiathome (fired up when the "Show graphics" button is pressed, in the "Work" tab of boincmgr), then you will have to check for your GLX driver and possibly recompile the whole suite of the packages (see the source packages section).

The above boincseti binary packages depend on the following packages:

glibc >= 2.3.4 : used by boinc, boinc_cmd, boincmgr and xsetiathome.
libgcc1 (/lib/libgcc_s.so.1) >= 3.4.3 : used by boinc, boinc_cmd, boincmgr and xsetiathome.
libstdc++6 (/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) >= 3.4.3 : used by boinc, boinc_cmd, boincmgr and xsetiathome.
libxorg-x11 >= 6.8.2 : used by boincmgr and xsetiathome.
zlib1 (/lib/libz.so.1) >= 1.2.2.2 : used by boincmgr and xsetiathome.
libjpeg62 (/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62) >= 6b : used by boincmgr and xsetiathome.
libpng3 (/usr/lib/libpng.so.3) >= 1.2.8 : used by boincmgr.
libtiff3 (/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3) >= 3.6.1 : used by boincmgr.
libexpat0 (/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0) >= 1.95.8 : used by boincmgr.
libMesaGLU1 (/usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1) >= 5.0.2 : used by xsetiathome. This package is available above.
libMesaglut3 (/usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3) >= 5.0.2 : used by xsetiathome. This package is available above.

Here are the RPM source packages I made so to be able to compile boinc and xsetiathome. They are meant to be built on Mandrake 10.2 (AKA Mandriva LE2005), but it should be possible to build them on any RPM-based system (possibly with some %macros tweaking in the spec files, yet). Note that you will need the static versions of the wxGTK and Mesa libraries in order to compile boinc (part of the boincseti package), and that the version of wxGTK must be 2.6.0 or later (Mandrake 10.2 ships with 2.4.2):

wxGTK-2.6.1-2gdf.src.rpm (6.9Mb): The sources package for wxGTK (setup to build against GTK+, not GTK2).
Mesa-5.0.2-9gdf.src.rpm (4.5Mb): The sources package for Mesa.
boincseti-4.18-2gdf.src.rpm (6.2Mb): The sources package for SETI@home and BOINC (CVS version, 2005/08/22 nighty build).

And now here is the whole set of the wxGTK and Mesa binary RPM packages. You do not need the wxGTK (statically linked into boincmgr) neither the devel packages in order to run boinc and xsetiathome, but you'd need them to recompile the whole shebang:

wxGTK-2.6.1-2gdf.i586.rpm (3Mb): The wxGTK main shared libraries.
wxGTK-gl-2.6.1-2gdf.i586.rpm (34Kb): The wxGTK GL libraries (shared and static).
wxGTK-devel-2.6.1-2gdf.i586.rpm (799Kb): The wxGTK development files.
wxGTK-static-2.6.1-2gdf.i586.rpm (3.5Mb): The wxGTK main static libraries.
Mesa-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (110Kb): Mesa configuration utilities and files.
libMesaGL1-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (1.7Mb): The GL shared library.
libMesaGLU1-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (263Kb): The GLU shared library.
libMesaGLU1-devel-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (1Mb): The GL and GLU static libraries and development files. Note that if you got the libxorg-x11-static-devel package installed, rpm will complain about a conflicting /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a file: just rename the latter and --force the installation of libMesaGLU1-devel.
libMesaglut3-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (119Kb): The glut shared library.
libMesaglut3-devel-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (163Kb): The glut static libraries and development files.
Mesa-demos-5.0.2-9gdf.i586.rpm (577Kb): Mesa demonstration programs.

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