boinc command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

boinc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: boinc: command not found

Solutions to boinc: command not found

How To Fix boinc: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu boinc is provided by boinc-client package.

boinc-client is:

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. The developers’ web site at the University of Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.

This package contains the BOINC core client program that is required to participate in any project that uses BOINC. A central server distributes work units and collects results via this client. When attaching a local machine to a project, this client will also dynamically download the scientific data and executables to be then wrapped by the BOINC core client.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install boinc-client

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install boinc-client.

sudo apt -y install boinc-client

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install boinc-client

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix boinc command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.