How To Install eleeye on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eleeye on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eleeye
eleeye is:
elephant eye (eleeye) is a Chinese chess (Xiangqi) engine providing a set of functions for developing Xiangqi games using the Universal Chess Interface, which is an open communication protocol that enables a chess program engine to communicate with its user interface.
Chinese chess (Xiangqi) is one of the most popular chess games to have originated in China.
There are three methods to install eleeye on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eleeye Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eleeye using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eleeye
Install eleeye Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eleeye using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eleeye
Install eleeye 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install eleeye using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eleeye
How To Uninstall eleeye on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eleeye package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eleeye
Uninstall eleeye And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eleeye and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eleeye
Remove eleeye Configurations and Data
To remove eleeye configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eleeye
Remove eleeye configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eleeye configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eleeye
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eleeye package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.