The .sh installer version and the karmic "boinc" package appear to be using different versions of wxWidgets (per Help>About BOINC Manager). Could that be causing it to work in one (.sh, using wxWidgets 2.8.7) and not the other (karmic, using 2.8.9 I think)?
The .sh installer version and the karmic "boinc" package appear to be using different versions of wxWidgets (per Help>About BOINC Manager). Could that be causing it to work in one (.sh, using wxWidgets 2.8.7) and not the other (karmic, using 2.8.9 I think)?