I was close to having it running but i kept trying to run
boinccmd --join_acct_mgr »
bam.boincstats.com/ username password
then i get
poll status: operation in progress
poll status: operation in progress
poll status: unexpected XML tag or syn
I gave up on that because i couldn't find any helpful resolution to that error. I'm going to install the GUI 32bit ver. of ubuntu 14.04 and install the BOINC manager so i can be done with it