How To Install scoutfish on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install scoutfish in Fedora 36. scoutfish is Chess Query Engine

Introduction

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

What is `scoutfish`

Scoutfish lets you run powerful and flexible queries on very big chess databases and with very high speed.

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

Install scoutfish 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 scoutfish using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scoutfish

Install scoutfish 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 scoutfish using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scoutfish

How To Uninstall scoutfish on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove scoutfish

scoutfish Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/scoutfish
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/2aa83e0eeb82b2396174d387817e5bcec99bcd
/usr/share/doc/scoutfish
/usr/share/doc/scoutfish/README.md
/usr/share/doc/scoutfish/scoutfish.py
/usr/share/licenses/scoutfish
/usr/share/licenses/scoutfish/Copying.txt

References

scoutfish website

Summary

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