How To Install knights on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install knights on Debian 11.
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 11. 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 11
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 11, 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 11 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:
- libc6
- libkf5completion5
- libkf5configcore5
- libkf5configgui5
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5kdegames7
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install knights package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
