How To Install eboard on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eboard on Debian 9.
What is eboard
eboard is:
eboard is a graphical chess program which can function as an interface to Internet chess servers such as FICS and to chess engines such as Crafty.
eboard has a themeable and freely resizable board, a tabbed or multi-window display, and supports multiple simultaneous boards.
This package contains a chess interface, which means that you can play against another human on the same computer, or play on an Internet server. If you would like to play against a computer, you should install a chess engine such as gnuchess in addition.
There are three methods to install eboard on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eboard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eboard using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eboard
Install eboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eboard using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eboard
Install eboard 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 eboard using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eboard
How To Uninstall eboard on Debian 9
To uninstall only the eboard package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eboard
Uninstall eboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eboard and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eboard
Remove eboard Configurations and Data
To remove eboard configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eboard
Remove eboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eboard configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eboard
Dependencies
eboard have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eboard package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.