How To Install ethereal-chess on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ethereal-chess on Kali Linux.

What is ethereal-chess

ethereal-chess is:

Ethereal is an UCI-compliant chess engine. It uses the traditional alpha-beta framework in addition to a variety of pruning, reduction, extension, and other improvements. It’s greatly influenced from Crafty, Stockfish, TSCP, MadChess and Fruit.

There are three methods to install ethereal-chess on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ethereal-chess Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ethereal-chess using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ethereal-chess

Install ethereal-chess Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ethereal-chess using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ethereal-chess

Install ethereal-chess Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ethereal-chess using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ethereal-chess

How To Uninstall ethereal-chess on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ethereal-chess

Uninstall ethereal-chess And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ethereal-chess and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ethereal-chess

Remove ethereal-chess Configurations and Data

To remove ethereal-chess configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ethereal-chess

Remove ethereal-chess configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ethereal-chess configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ethereal-chess

Dependencies

ethereal-chess have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libfathom1

References

• ethereal-chess website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ethereal-chess package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.