Installing Folding@Home is fairly easy on linux. I used Pop!_OS:
I followed the installation guide at Folding@Home.
Sadly using the most recent version of Pop!_OS it wouldn’t allow me to install FAHControl due to Pop no longer supporting Python2.
Luckily the fine people at Folding have done some porting to Python3.
I was able to get it installed by doing these steps:
- git clone https://github.com/cdberkstresser/fah-control.git
- cd fah-control
- sudo apt install pip
- python3 setup.py build
- sudo python3 setup.py install
Next to get the gpu recognized in the software:
- sudo apt install nvidia-opencl-dev ocl-icd-opencl-dev
Lastly I rebooted the computer. Upon boot from the terminal:
- FAHControl &
The cpu and gpu should now be seen.