Vicky’s server guides

Do you use your spare server power to compute BOINC projects? Seti@Home or MilkyWay or some others ?

You surely encountered error on CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 these errors:

./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXcomposite.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
./boincmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXdamage.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The cure is actually pretty easy, you just need to install the missing libraries

yum install libXcomposite libXdamage

And your problem should be vanished.. Also, you may need these libraries, but those should be installed by default: zlib, openssl, curl-devel

Happy computing