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Message 96160 - Posted: 28 Feb 2020, 8:02:31 UTC

I am trying to set up Boinc on my Chromebook. I successfully installed Ubuntu operating system and successfully download the BOINC manager. However the BOINC manager keeps showing the above error, anyone has experience of this error and knows how to solve it? There is no other error message so I don't know what went wrong.
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Message 96188 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 10:30:32 UTC

Against some people's recommendations, I do use Gianfranco Costamagna's PPAs, and it has always worked flawlessly.
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Message 96190 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 10:40:31 UTC - in response to Message 96188.  

Does that mean adding that PPA boinc will successfully connect to the core client?
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Message 96194 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 11:19:04 UTC - in response to Message 96190.  
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It'll allow you to install the latest client.
Uninstall Boinc, 
sudo apt purge boinc

and follow the guide.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
sudo apt update
sudo apt install boinc
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Message 96201 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 11:41:34 UTC - in response to Message 96190.  

Does that mean adding that PPA boinc will successfully connect to the core client?
The Manager should connect to the core client if the core client is capable of running on your CPU, and is actually running.
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Message 96222 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 22:03:48 UTC - in response to Message 96194.  

seem like sudo apt purge boinc didn't uninstall the boinc manager? I still see the boinc manager after the command?

Also my boinc still can't connect to core client even after I download the latest version using those four command
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Message 96223 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 22:07:41 UTC - in response to Message 96222.  

Try instead:
sudo apt purge boinc*
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Message 96225 - Posted: 29 Feb 2020, 23:24:21 UTC

And for installing, I use:
sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager
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Message 96226 - Posted: 1 Mar 2020, 3:09:30 UTC - in response to Message 96225.  

Suddenly sudo apt update not working. It says method http has died unexpectedly. Did some research online and didn't find a good solution to my problem
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Message 96228 - Posted: 1 Mar 2020, 5:25:56 UTC - in response to Message 96226.  

Searching the web seems to indicate that's a Chrome Book problem.
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Message 96230 - Posted: 1 Mar 2020, 6:32:11 UTC

Have you tried running
top
to confirm the client is running?
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Message 96237 - Posted: 1 Mar 2020, 15:32:16 UTC

There's something deeper going on.
Does your chromebook have full Linux capabilities?
I know some chromebooks are locked with Chrome, so you can't install any other OS on them (unless if it's ran from an external drive).
Also, what CPU does yours run? An x86/64 CPU or an ARM based (Eg: snapdragon, AMLogic, or other) CPU?
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Message 96252 - Posted: 1 Mar 2020, 23:04:26 UTC - in response to Message 96237.  

Intel CORE m3. ASUS Chromebook
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