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Astronomer

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Message 32921 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 16:37:15 UTC

Down load of Boinc for my Ubuntu system successful, but it wont let me load it. keep getting this message: "gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again."

Any help from anyone on how to do this would be nice.
Thank you,
Pat
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ProfileGundolf Jahn

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Message 32926 - Posted: 21 May 2010, 18:21:20 UTC - in response to Message 32921.  

Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.

That's exactly what you are trying to do ;-)

The file is a shell archive and has to be started (as can be derived from the suffix) by
sh boinc_6.10.56_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh

But you shouldn't do that in the /tmp directory, unless you want to install BOINC there.

Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
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