How To Install knights on Debian 10

Learn how to install knights on Debian 10 with this tutorial. knights is chess interface for the KDE Platform

Introduction

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

What is knights

knights is:

Knights aims to be the ultimate chess resource on your computer. It’s designed to be both friendly to new chess players and functional for Grand Masters. At the moment you can play either against other human or against the machine using an engine like gnuchess.

There are three methods to install knights 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 knights Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install knights

Install knights Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install knights using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install knights

Install knights 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 knights using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install knights

How To Uninstall knights on Debian 10

To uninstall only the knights package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove knights

Uninstall knights And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove knights

Remove knights Configurations and Data

To remove knights configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge knights

Remove knights configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge knights

Dependencies

knights have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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