How to Install and Uninstall boinc-client Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "boinc-client" package

This is a short guide on how to install boinc-client on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                boinc-client
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "boinc-client" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall boinc-client on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                boinc-client
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the boinc-client package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: boinc-client
Source: boinc
Version: 7.14.2+dfsg-3
Installed-Size: 1346
Maintainer: Debian BOINC Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: adduser, ca-certificates, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), libboinc7 (= 7.14.2+dfsg-3), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.15), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, libxss1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: boinc-client-opencl, boinc-client-nvidia-cuda, boinc-manager, x11-xserver-utils
Description: core client for the BOINC distributed computing infrastructure
Description-md5: 9bd4f63a5f0f805b9edce1e36fefff24
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Tag: field::astronomy, field::biology, field::chemistry, field::mathematics,
field::physics, field::statistics, implemented-in::c++,
interface::commandline, network::client, protocol::http, role::program,
use::TODO
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/boinc/boinc-client_7.14.2+dfsg-3_amd64.deb
Size: 459272
MD5sum: 3c3097f98188151304d59dbea8eea4d8
SHA256: 1d7ee297423c4f0b1cdf958836ed54c0759190f726a7a6a1b3f3117398b62748