How To Install polyglot-chess on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install polyglot-chess in Fedora 36. polyglot-chess is Polyglot chess opening book program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polyglot-chess on Fedora 36.

What is polyglot-chess

PolyGlot is a “UCI adapter”. It connects a UCI chess engine to an xboard interface such as WinBoard. UCI2WB is another such adapter (for Windows). PolyGlot tries to solve known problems with other adapters. For instance, it detects and reports draws by fifty-move rule, repetition, etc … New Features index as well. The leveldb option can be enabled with -leveldb

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

Install polyglot-chess 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 polyglot-chess using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install polyglot-chess

Install polyglot-chess 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 polyglot-chess using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install polyglot-chess

How To Uninstall polyglot-chess on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the polyglot-chess package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove polyglot-chess

polyglot-chess Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/polyglot-chess
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/8323b0968b5058b566dbe835c5636d8275ced4
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess/README.md
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess/TODO.Debian
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess/example-files
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess/example-files/fruit_book_linux.ini
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess/readme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/polyglot-chess
/usr/share/licenses/polyglot-chess/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man6/polyglot-chess.6.gz

References

Summary

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