How To Install knights on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install knights in Fedora 36. knights is A chess board for KDE

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install knights on Fedora 36.

What is knights

Knights is a chess board for KDE that supports playing against computer engines that support the XBoard protocol like GNUChess and also multiplayer games over the internet on FICS. It features automatic rule checking, themes, and nice animations

We can use yum or dnf to install knights on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install knights.

Install knights on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install knights

Install knights on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install knights

How To Uninstall knights on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove knights

knights Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/knights
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f3803d9aece05825b93a23c740bb9a1311cf1b
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.knights.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/knights.kcfg
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.Knights.xml
/usr/share/doc/knights
/usr/share/doc/knights/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/knights/DESIGN
/usr/share/doc/knights/README.md
/usr/share/doc/knights/README.themes
/usr/share/doc/knights/README.translation
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-board-setup.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-board.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-castle-kingside.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-castle-queenside.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-danger.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-engines.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-enpassant.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-lastmove.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-bishop.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-king.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-knight.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-limits.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-pawn.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-queen.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-move-rook.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-moving-queen.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-newgame-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-server-account.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-server-challenges.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-server-graph.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/Knights-server-list.png
/usr/share/doc/knights/doc/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/knights.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/knights.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/knights.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/knights.png
/usr/share/knights
/usr/share/knights/sounds
/usr/share/knights/sounds/capture_black.ogg
/usr/share/knights/sounds/capture_white.ogg
/usr/share/knights/sounds/move_black.ogg
/usr/share/knights/sounds/move_white.ogg
/usr/share/knights/themes
/usr/share/knights/themes/default.desktop
/usr/share/knights/themes/east_west.desktop
/usr/share/knights/themes/east_west.png
/usr/share/knights/themes/east_west.svgz
/usr/share/knights/themes/gray.png
/usr/share/knights/themes/gray.svgz
/usr/share/knights/themes/knights.desktop
/usr/share/knights/themes/knights.png
/usr/share/knights/themes/knights.svgz
/usr/share/knights/themes/plain.desktop
/usr/share/knights/themes/plain.png
/usr/share/knights/themes/plain.svgz
/usr/share/knights/themes/xboard2.desktop
/usr/share/knights/themes/xboard2.png
/usr/share/knights/themes/xboard2.svgz
/usr/share/knsrcfiles/knights.knsrc
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/knights/knightsui.rc
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.knights.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/knights.categories

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install knights on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).