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Hey folders!

I have never played with folding@home before, and I have a dedicated Linux server (Ubuntu Server 14.04) which could help with the research project.
I also did a lot research about it, and also readed the Linux Install Guide several times, without finding the informationen I need.

Problem is - my Linux server runs without X11, and also without Apache. SSH is the only way in.
That excludes Web Control, FAHControl and FAHViewer as I understand.

Are there other ways to install and control the folding only using SSH?

Welcome to the forums pazau!

You can download a tarball only release of the client from here https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/F ... llReleases (they aren't actually beta releases), which you can use to run the Folding@home client from a terminal with no X server.

You can also just use the regular install package on the server; I have that on my virtual folding box (Ubuntu 12.04) but only for CPU folding. Not sure if GPU folding would work w/o X; think not; but that's more a driver issue.

Once you configure the folding client you can also remote connect from a windows/Mac/Linus version of FAHcontrol to the server; works pretty well.

Thanks uncle_fungus, but I prefer to install from a .deb since I have received a lot of problems with tarballs... :p

ChristianVirtual: Do you mean the installer-script from the Linux Install Guide or? Which packages do I need?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that because it is a dedicated server, there is no graphics card onboard. Only the built-in Intel, which isn't for much use for this project.

Mainly his one

https://fah.stanford.edu/file-releases/ ... _amd64.deb

You can find it via this forum in header area and "The Software"; always download from there ...

See also the questions and answers provided here viewtopic.php?f=96&t=27619

Also, a single FAHControl instance (using X11 or Windows or MacOS) can monitor and control all instances of FAHClient on your LAN.

uncle_fungus wrote:Welcome to the forums pazau!

You can download a tarball only release of the client from here https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/F ... llReleases (they aren't actually beta releases), which you can use to run the Folding@home client from a terminal with no X server.

Take the "beta" out of the URL for the public version. (same exact files, at this time, may be different in the future)

https://fah-web.stanford.edu/projects/F ... llReleases

And no need to be concerned about these tarballs. It's just the client executable in compressed format. Nothing else.

But please note:

FAH V7 WIKI wrote:These are .tar.bz2 releases of the console only client for experts only. They are without installer, and are self-supported: FAHClient --help

Sorry for the VERY late reply, and many thanks for the answers folks!

I only downloaded the standalone FAHClient and started it under a screen session - that way I could configure and control it over the SSH connection.
What I realized, was that the client spawns slots with the lowest thread priority - meaning that ressources for the other programs shouln't be a problem at all!