Installation according to the books - ''without'' the Debian server package

  1. Install BOINC server dependencies : 

    sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential apache2 php5 mysql-server php5-gd php5-cli php5-mysql python-mysqldb libtool automake autoconf pkg-config libmysql++-dev libssl-dev

  2. Create a user and a group for BOINC and add www-data to that group : 

    sudo addgroup  --system  boincadm
sudo adduser www-data boincadm

  3. Download BOINC source : 

    svn co http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/branches/server_stable boinc

  4. Compile BOINC : 

    cd boinc
./_autosetup
./configure --disable-client
make