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After failing to install the pre-made .deb files on Ubuntu MATE 17.04 (Zesty, dev branch), which Nvidia Pascal users (like me) need due to driver support in kernel version 4.9+, I searched this forum for instructions on how to address the Python 2 incompatible dependency issue, and I did not find any instruction related to manually performing git clone from the FAHControl repository on GitHub, at https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control, in which the latest commit for file stdeb.cfg has the description "Attempt to fix install on Ubuntu 16.04", by changing the deb package configuration to include a newer Python support package.

Has anyone had success in installing and running FAHControl through this method? If not, would it be a good solution for me to git clone the repo and change the relevant .cfg file myself to address whatever package the Ubuntu package installer complains about? Or would an actual thorough port, by the developers, to Python 3 be required (not in the long term, but just for a workaround)?

Isn't that still an Alpha pre-release?

For python compatibility you need this package.
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109052632 ... 15_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-support_1.0.15_all.deb

The following may be easier to copy and paste in a terminal since just copying and pasting the above wget command line won't get you what you need:
After running the above two commands you should have no trouble installing FAHControl.

Thank you all for the solutions presented. These solve the problem, but I had probably already seen those elsewhere on the forum through search.

The question of this thread still stands: would there be any improvement or difference in installing that particular version on FAHControl (from GitHub)? For those of you who tested this specific avenue of making it work (manual git clone and copy), does it work at all, or should I not even bother trying due to some incompatibility or need to port/update code?

Adding the Python support work around linked above is the safe and recommended solution. As such, I doubt anyone has even tried the alpha version, but you are welcomed to be one of the first, if you like. Alphas are typically rough in FAH, may fix one issue, cause 2 more. Caveat Folder.

foldy wrote:For python compatibility you need this package.
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109052632 ... 15_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-support_1.0.15_all.deb

Googling-for-answers brought me to this thread.

V7 client folding as it should, thanks!