How To Install dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install dreamchess-engine in Fedora 36. dreamchess-engine is A moderately strong chess engine for the game DreamChess

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36.

What is `dreamchess-engine`

Should this chess engine be too weak for you, then you can use any other XBoard-compatible chess engine, including the popular Crafty and GNU Chess.

We can use yum or dnf to install dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dreamchess-engine.

Install dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dreamchess-engine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dreamchess-engine

Install dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dreamchess-engine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dreamchess-engine

How To Uninstall dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the dreamchess-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dreamchess-engine

dreamchess-engine Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/dreamer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/f221446ecacea8fd66d2699ad64db3ea68b3a4
/usr/share/doc/dreamchess-engine
/usr/share/doc/dreamchess-engine/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/licenses/dreamchess-engine
/usr/share/licenses/dreamchess-engine/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man6/dreamer.6.gz

References

dreamchess-engine website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dreamchess-engine on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).