https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagia...e/ubuntu/boinc
Try this, MiNT is a derivative of Ubuntu so the version for 17.1 is probably capable of using one of the versions found here:
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -s boinc
That last command should give you some output about what apt-get would do if you actually let it do that install (-s is "show, but don't do") If it includes something similar to the following:
...
The following extra packages will be installed:
boinc-client boinc-manager libboinc7
Suggested packages:
boinc-client-opencl boinc-client-fglrx boinc-client-nvidia-cuda
The following packages will be upgraded:
boinc boinc-client boinc-manager libboinc7
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 322 not upgraded.
Inst boinc-client [7.6.12+dfsg-1~
trusty2] (7.6.32+dfsg-2~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa2 boinc development release:14.04/trusty [amd64]) []
...
You can repeat the install command without the -s to get the now current version installed. 7.6.32 in the example above.
It probably won't say "trusty" but more likely "wily"
NOTE: My experience has been that 7.6.32 doesn't work well at dDM. Seems to have broken something in the way the BOINC tasks communicate with the boinc daemon that breaks with the way that dDM talks to the java stack. I upgraded to 7.6.32 then copied the 3 executable from a 7.6.31 install to get things working fine for my dDM run. I didn't notice other projects having that same problem while I was running 7.6.32 though. YMMV