Packaging F@H 8.3 into a Ubuntu snap for easier use

[thiblec71]

Hello Everyone,

I use an Ubuntu distribution to run F@H. I achieve 25% higher WU completed per day than on the same computer on Windows.

I am no expert in Linux but was able to find Folding@Home in the Ubuntu app store (snap) and in one click was able to run F@H.

This snap runs v7.6 and I was wondering if anyone knowledgeable in Linux could create a new snap with the latest version 8.3?
https://github.com/fcole90/fah-snap

Best

[toTOW]

The snap build was a way to bypass the python issues with FAHControl used in v7 clients. And it's not an official build from FAH developer.

v8 client doesn't use any of this anymore, so it's no longer required to make snap builds.

[DocJonz]

One issue with Snap in Ubuntu is that this is how Firefox is enabled, so when Snap wants to do an update/refresh on Firefox, the current v8 client will stop working. (I preferred the v7 client in its own program!)

[thiblec71]

@toTow, thanks for the answer.

Have you a very detailed guide (with line of code to paste in terminal) to install 8.3 on Linux?

[M0CZY]

Try downloading:
https://download.foldingathome.org/rele ... se.tar.bz2

Then extract it to a folder, open the folder, then double-click fah-client

You control it from https://v8-3.foldingathome.org/

On my Arch Linux, I did: yay -S foldingathome

[calxalot]

Note that if you run the client by double clicking, you will probably get a terminal window open, the client will run as your user, all client files will be in whatever directory your window manager sets (usually your home directory).

[toTOW]

@toTow, thanks for the answer.

Have you a very detailed guide (with line of code to paste in terminal) to install 8.3 on Linux?

The only available guide is here : https://foldingathome.org/v8-3-client-guide/

On Ubuntu, use the .deb file, not the tar.gz suggested by M0CZY ...

In a terminal run:

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wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/fah-client/debian-10-64bit/release/fah-client_8.3.18_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i fah-client_8.3.18_amd64.deb