Thanks for the help. Yeah its too bad linux hasn't developed something along the lines of the APK, where everything can just be a package. I've had some real issues in the past trying to install things that were not in the built in "app store" in linux. Eventually I just gave up and went back to windows when I couldn't get what I needed to work. I think it would do them a lot of good to have some kind of universal thing that worked on all distros, like apk does for android. Tarballs and all that... I just wasn't feelin' it.

But if it will just be a mining rig, I think I can deal with it since I'll just be setting it up and letting it run, not using it for everyday stuff.