Trying to move to Linux Mint

[mincerafter42]

Hello, I'm trying to move prime95 from Windows 7 to Linux Mint. I want to keep all the needed files for prime95 to continue the same process after the transfer. It will still be on the same physical computer when this is done. What is the pest way to do this, or would it be better to just cancel the process on Windows 7 and re-install prime95 on Linux Mint? Sorry if this is in the wrong forum section or if there's a really obvious answer I haven't found.

[Uncwilly]

Preserve your worktodo.txt file and any files that start with p f or m that have a bunch of numbers after them. Keeping the whole Prime95 folder would be good. You will need to change the program file to the mprime file (see https://www.mersenne.org/download/ for the most recent version.) Others may have more detailed tips later.

[Prime95]

Just save the entire folder. Then load mprime (the Linux 64-bit version of prime95) into the folder once you've installed Linux. Run "./mprime -m", choose Test/Continue menu choice.

Others can tell you how to set things up so that mprime runs automatically at boot up.

[mincerafter42]

When I choose "Test/Continue", it says "Another mprime is running" and shows the menu again. Is that good? I haven't seen any progress updates where I'm told how much is completed like in the Windows version yet. I hope it's working.

[paulunderwood]

Some useful commands are pidof mprime and top --- press q to quit it. You can kill it with command killall mprime -- which is safe to do. Then run ./mprime -m again for the menu instance and choose "test/continue".

Do you wish have mprime start automatically when the computer boots? If so do you want to be able to see the progress?

[mincerafter42]

I do want mprime to run when the computer boots. I want to be able to see the progress if I open the window, but have the window hidden when it's not open like in Windows. Is that possible?

[paulunderwood]

Originally Posted by mincerafter42

I do want mprime to run when the computer boots. I want to be able to see the progress if I open the window, but have the window hidden when it's not open like in Windows. Is that possible?

Yes. See this post which can be done by editing your crontab with crontab -e (with nano). Paste this line as the last into the edit:

@reboot screen -S mprime -d -m -L /home/me/sb/mprime -d

making the change to your directory structure. To save from nano do ctrl+x (for exit) then y (for yes to save) and enter.

The after you reboot the machine you can see what is happening at any time by opening a terminal and running the command screen -r mprime

(I could go into how you create an alias in your .bashrc file so that you could just type in moma or whatever which runs screen -r mprime )

[ZFR]

Originally Posted by mincerafter42

I do want mprime to run when the computer boots. I want to be able to see the progress if I open the window, but have the window hidden when it's not open like in Windows. Is that possible?

Sorry for the bump, but to make it more "Windows-like" you can even add the shortcut to your panel launcher and move it to the right side of your panel.
This way you won't have to bother remembering Ctrl+A, Ctrl+D, nor the shortcut itself, and could simply open it by double clicking and close it by closing the window while it continues running in the background.

Now, if only there was a more "Minty" 2^p-1 icon...