Another remote access question

[PantherX]

Welcome to the F@H Forum gadolf,

...I've set up my desktop at work(Windows 10) to run f@h...

Please note that you will need to have permission (usually written) as per the EULA from the system owner or your manager or someone else who's authorized to make that kind of decision.

[gadolf]

Please note that you will need to have permission (usually written) as per the EULA from the system owner or your manager or someone else who's authorized to make that kind of decision.

Thanks for having mentioning that.

Although I'm relatively sure that I could get such approval, now it's not the right time to bring that point to management, so I'll uninstall f@h client from that work computer.

I apologize to others in this thread for having taken their time to answer me questions that will no longer apply to my use case. (well, it may be useful for other users...)

I'll try to install the client in a headless linux server at home,

[gadolf]

I'm about to finish my home linux server setup and be ready to switch off my work f@h client.

One question: is the linux f@h client suitable to run on a headless ubuntu server? I don't want to install any gui packages in this server.

[PantherX]

If you're comfortable with CLI, then you can only install the FAHClient package (skip FAHControl and FAHViewer). You can also control that headless Server from a different machine using FAHControl if you configure the headless server as such.

[gadolf]

If you're comfortable with CLI, then you can only install the FAHClient package (skip FAHControl and FAHViewer).

Yes, I am.
So it won't install any graphical stuff in the server, right?
It doesn't seem to, from the client deb info below, but I just want to make sure I won't loose time cleaning up the server from all graphical stuff it may install together.

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gustavo@srv:~$ dpkg-deb --info fahclient_7.6.9_amd64.deb 
 new Debian package, version 2.0.
 size 3187836 bytes: control archive=2388 bytes.
      22 bytes,     1 lines      conffiles            
     493 bytes,    19 lines   *  config               #!/bin/sh
     794 bytes,    20 lines      control              
    2680 bytes,    92 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/bash
    1020 bytes,    42 lines   *  postrm               #!/bin/sh
     889 bytes,    34 lines   *  preinst              #!/bin/sh
     744 bytes,    31 lines      templates            
 Package: fahclient
 Version: 7.6.9
 Maintainer: Joseph Coffland <[email protected]>
 Priority: optional
 Section: science
 Bugs: https://apps.foldingathome.org/bugs
 Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
 [b]Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, libc6, bzip2, zlib1g[/b]
 Pre-Depends: adduser
 Recommends: fahviewer (=7.6.9), fahcontrol (=7.6.9)
 Architecture: amd64
 Installed-Size: 8836
 Description: Folding@home Console Client
  Folding@home is a distributed computing project using volunteered
  computer resources.
  .
  This package contains the console client which is used to download
  and run Folding@home work units.  To monitor and control the console
  client it is best to use either Web Control via your browser, or the
  Graphical User Interface called FAHControl, provided in a separate package.

[gadolf]

Please disregard my latest post.
I've already installed the client and it doesn't require any graphical packages.