How To Install chessx on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chessx
on Debian 12.
What is chessx
chessx is:
With ChessX you can operate your collection of chess games in many ways: browse, edit, add, organize, analyze, etc.
Current features:
- Multi-platform. Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
- Load and save PGN files.
- Work with multiple databases simultaneously.
- Browse games, including variations.
- Enter moves, variations and comments.
- Setup board, copy/paste FEN.
- Search header (click on columns in game list header).
- Display opening tree for the current position.
- Analyze using UCI and Winboard/XBoard chess engines.
- Observe and play games on FICS.
There are three methods to install chessx
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install chessx Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install chessx
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install chessx
Install chessx Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install chessx
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install chessx
Install chessx Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install chessx
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install chessx
How To Uninstall chessx on Debian 12
To uninstall only the chessx
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove chessx
Uninstall chessx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall chessx
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove chessx
Remove chessx Configurations and Data
To remove chessx
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge chessx
Remove chessx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove chessx
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chessx
Dependencies
chessx have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chessx
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.