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Try to install fahcontrol 7.6.13-1 on a fresh Linux Mint 20.04 install, Cinnamon desk top. I am getting the following error:

Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:python-gtk2|python-gnome2

The fahclient installed and is working, it downloaded a CPU work unit and is crunching away. Now to figure out how to control it without fahcontrol...is there a way to tell it to finish and then pause with a command line until I get this figured out?

Any help would be appreciated.

yes fahclient has command line options like --send-pause or --send-unpause or --send-finish

Thanks
I did not realize the web control works on a Linux system until now, I think I can complete the WU I downloaded and uninstall F@H until I have a solution to getting fahcontrol working properly. I have multiple GPUs and do other things with this system, I need the control fahcontrol offers over the web app. It seems like something needs to be updated in the program to avoid jumping through hoops to get this working on 20.04 to resolve this.

Same problem here.

A workaround is to use,

https://client.foldingathome.org/

Problem with the web client is very limited. How can I set up remote control? Or specify exactly how many cores? Really need a programmatic solution. More and more people will encounter this problem as Ubuntu/Mint 20.04 gets used.

As mentioned in multiple topics where the subject of Mint version 20 and FAHControl not working "out of the box" has come up, there are workarounds. In addition a future version of the client will be updated to resolve the dependencies, there are topics on volunteers who have worked on the open source code.

FWIW I managed to get FAHControl on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop to work by using these instructions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Folding/commen ... buntu_2004

However I did have to install python-cairo since when I got to the sudo dpkg -i python-gtk2_2.24.0-6_amd64.deb part of those instructions it failed with the feedback that "python-gtk2 depends on python-cairo (>= 1.0.2-1.1); Package python-cairo is not installed." However it was straightforward to install and then the python-gtk installed fine after that no problem.

Here's those instructions that worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop:

I'm having the same problem with FAHControl, and sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 gives me "unable to locate package"

Hey Richard what OS you're using?

On Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 I had to use these commands to get FAHControl working:

Thanks Sam!!! That works on Mint 20.

For me an additional
was needed on LinuxMint 20 Cinnamon Edition to make it work.

There is a forked version of fahcontrol here.
https://github.com/cdberkstresser/fah-control/releases