How To Install chess.app on Debian 10

Learn how to install chess.app on Debian 10 with this tutorial. chess.app is Chess for GNUstep ported from OPENSTEP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chess.app on Debian 10.

What is chess.app

chess.app is:

This is a Chess frontend for GNU chess.

There are three methods to install chess.app on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install chess.app Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install chess.app using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install chess.app

Install chess.app Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install chess.app using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install chess.app

Install chess.app 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 chess.app using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chess.app

How To Uninstall chess.app on Debian 10

To uninstall only the chess.app package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chess.app

Uninstall chess.app And Its Dependencies

To uninstall chess.app and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chess.app

Remove chess.app Configurations and Data

To remove chess.app configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chess.app

Remove chess.app configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove chess.app configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chess.app

Dependencies

chess.app have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chess.app package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.