installed folding @ home client .deb, nothings showing up

[iHateCoilWhine]

im running popOS 19.10. i installed the folding at home client from the website. after the install was done nothing showed up in the launcher? wtf do i do now

[Jwalbrecht2000]

Do you have a capture of what you're seeing? Not quite sure what you mean.

[Klenex]

What launcher?

What did you install?

If you just installed the FAHClient then you're not going to see anything, F@H just runs in the backgroud as a service.

You need to install FAHControl in order to configure and see what the software is doing.

[Fredd Green]

Install FAHcontrol to control it

[kartonrealista]

On 3/23/2020 at 1:41 PM, Fredd Green said:

Install FAHcontrol to control it

This is old but FAHcontrol doesn't work on Ubuntu for some reason. In case anyone else has this problem, use web control: https://client.foldingathome.org/

[MasterGeekMX]

F@H on linux only installs a background process that folds in the background. without any sort of application to launch.

 

To see something, either go to the web control via http://localhost:7396/ or install the fahcontrol app from https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

[kartonrealista]

1 hour ago, MasterGeekMX said:

install the fahcontrol app from https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

On Pop!_OS 19.10 if you try to install fahcontrol deb file, Eddy just mumbles something about Python2 and fails to install it. It's because on newer versions of Ubuntu and Debian python-gnome2 is no longer included, so apps written with it won't work.

This is a tutorial that supposedly fixes the issue, but with that much hassle maybe it's easier to just stick with web control (it can also backfire and break something):

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=311082

Until they make another client, this is what it is.

Edited April 6, 2020 by kartonrealista
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