How to Install and Uninstall boinctui Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "boinctui" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install boinctui on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "boinctui" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall boinctui on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                boinctui
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the boinctui package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: boinctui
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 219
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sergey Suslov
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.3.6-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgnutls-openssl27 (>= 3.0-0), libncursesw5 (>= 6), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Suggests: boinc-client
Filename: pool/universe/b/boinctui/boinctui_2.3.6-1_amd64.deb
Size: 78048
MD5sum: 4ee4f820ca5d541ac1f79aa8683bd831
SHA1: 9c03cb5b057a6868e91ec40d033a0b28b4a6a473
SHA256: 12e5dc4cdbe84d61d3501db7768b36e8ea8234f326a82a0191f14a339eff644c
Description-en: Fullscreen text mode manager for Boinc client
boinctui is a fullscreen text mode control tool for BOINC client
It can manage local and remote clients (via boinc RPC), and allows
you to switch between clients with a hot key.
boinctui uses curses library and provides the following features:
* Fullscreen curses based text user interface
* Switch between several BOINC clients hosts via hot key
* View task list (run, queue, suspend e.t.c state)
* View message list
* Suspend/Resume/Abort tasks
* Update/Suspend/Resume/Reset/No New Task/Allow New Task for projects
* Toggle activity state GPU and CPU tasks
* Run benchmarks
* Manage BOINC client on remote hosts via boinc_gui protocol
Description-md5: 943b8b49e95cd6112f11bd83843f1f22
Homepage: https://github.com/suleman1971/boinctui
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu