I have BOINC running (hooked up to BAM) on a few Windows boxes. My main box, which is by far the most powerful, is running Linux though. I'm failing to figure out how to run BOINC, much less hook it up to BAM, on Linux. I installed boinc using apt-get (I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 x64) and when I nov try to open the maneger I get "Another instance of BOINC manager is already running on this computer. Please select a client to monitor." in a dialogue with two fields: host name and password.

Is there some easy to understand walk through of how to set it op on Linux? I looked a bit at this wiki page, but that one was not of much help.

When you close the BOINC manager using the close button (X) it will minimise to the tray in the desktop in which it was opened, and the tasks will continue to run. If you then try to launch the manager using an icon it will tell you the first one is still opened and ask if you wish to open a second one. Look in your tray in all your desktops and you should see it minimised. Open that one.

I seem to remember that it minimises itself after the first install. Close the manager in the menus under File. It will ask if you wish to close the window or exit the manager. Closing the window here minimises it same as with the close button. If you Exit the manager it will then ask if you wish to stop running the tasks. You can exit the manager but keep the tasks running, to save you some resources, or shut down the whole thing, as you wish.

You'll probably find that your menus disappear quite often in Kubuntu 12.04. If that happens just resize the window a few pixels and they will return. Don't ask me why...

The hostname is the name of your linux box. Type the command 'hostname' in your terminal(without the quotes) to figure out your hostname.
In Ubuntu the password boinc-manager is asking for is located in /etc/boinc-client/gui_rpc_auth.cfg
The password is a long randomly generated number and you can change it if you want.
That directory is owned by the user boinc so you either need to add yourself the boinc group or become root to view any of the files located within.

I hope this helps.