Re: Newbie needs help with SETI@home

[Tim Gray <tgray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Laredo,

Seti@home doesn't really need any installation in the way ./configure
and the like.

You should open a terminal (yes, you have to go to the command prompt
first time you run it, at least).  Use "cd" to get into the directory
you have it installed into and execute "setiathome"  There are
switches for getting it to go through a proxy if you need it to
(setiathome -proxy [ip add:port]).  It will prompt you for either an
existing or a new user, ask appropriate ?? based on that and then get
your first chunk of data to process, then your off and running.


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 Tim   
 IT Technician
 ADAC Plastics, Inc.

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Tuesday, January 09, 2001, 10:57:16 PM, you wrote:

L> Howdy-

L> I just installed my first Linux OS last Sunday.  It is running quite well.  I have been having a problem with getting Seti@home  to install (the first program i have tried to install)

L> I can unpack the tar file, but when I try to use the ./configure command, the terminal window tells me that that command is not known.  

L> How do I install and run SETI?

L> If I just unpack the tarball, and then click on one of the executables, it just makes my HD grind for five minutes and then nothing else happens.

L> Any, and all advice would be appreciated.


L> Thanks Much-

L> Lar.

L> P.S.  Here is the link http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html .  I was trying to install the i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1:  program from linux.org. My CPU is a PIII 1.0GHz