Running minimal version 17 (ubuntu) and tried to upgrade client to 7.14.2

jstateson@jyslinux3:~$ sudo apt-get install boinc-client
[sudo] password for jstateson:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
boinc-client is already the newest version (7.8.3+dfsg-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
jstateson@jyslinux3:~$

tried on another system and got almost the same result


jstateson@jstatesonxps730:~$ sudo apt-get install boinc-client
[sudo] password for jstateson:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
boinc-client is already the newest version (7.9.3+dfsg-5ubuntu2).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libblkid1:i386 libuuid1:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 311 not upgraded.

Depends on your distribution repository maintainers whether they are getting the latest Linux BOINC that is available. The Linux versions are not maintained officially by any of the projects usual suspects as they don't have any Linux experience.

You can either compile your Linux version yourself from the latest BOINC master or use some of the ppa repositories that have compiled the latest stable releases.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc

https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/boinc

or for the very latest releases or commits try

https://bintray.com/boinc

Strange, I have Ubuntu 18.10 and the default installation on a clean install is 7.12.0

Interestingly, I tried rolling my own yesterday for the first time in over 10 years in an attempt to get the latest version. I need to do some investigation into what has caused fatal errors. I think this may take a while.

Edit: Adding the first of the repositories linked to below upgrades my BOINC to 7.14.2

Thanks Keith & Dave!

I first tried GitHub (I have my own repository there) but saw this error

The repository 'https://github.com/BOINC/boinc artful Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default

I then did the following that worked better

add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
apt-get update
apt-get install boinc-client

This got me 7.14.2 on 18.04 but only 7.12.0 on 17.10 (Artful Aardvark)

Artful has a pair of nVidia boards and the driver is a PITA to install. An OS upgrade requires a reinstall of nVidia driver which I am not interested in doing again. OTOH my pair of RX-570 in Bionic Beaver were recognized immediate. I will stick with 7.12 on Artful but the rest of my farm is on 14.

[EDIT] I am running minimal systems, no xwindows or xdisplay. I recently found that nvidia-smi reports back board temperatures, not sure what to use to check the RX-570 but they seem to run much cooler than nVidia.

I don't like using the official Nvidia .run installer. I find it much easier to use the graphics-driver ppa which is just a point and click installation via the Software&Updates app Additional Drivers tab.
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa