boincscr command not found

Introduction

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

boincscr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: boincscr: command not found

Solutions to boincscr: command not found

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

In Ubuntu boincscr is provided by boinc-screensaver package.

boinc-screensaver 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.

The BOINC client is configurable by the command line or the BOINC manager’s GUI to compute with any range between 0% and 100% of available resources, and to change that ratio to a higher after some user determined duration of inactivity. There is now quite a number of individuals who prefer to have everything presented with their accustomed principle for setting and choosing a screen saver. Upon inactivity, the BOINC client is started, and stopped again when the user is back. To save the screen, it then shows the graphical progress indication as optionally shown also by the manager.

This package is excellent to further promote BOINC, recalling the effect SETI@Home once had in the Cambridge, UK, CB2 Cybercafe. Just, when using it together with the regular BOINC client setup, it is suggested not to have all CPUs used to avoid multiple processes running on the same core.

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

sudo apt-get -y install boinc-screensaver

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

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

sudo apt -y install boinc-screensaver

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

sudo aptitude install boinc-screensaver

Summary

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