How To Install fruit on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fruit
on Debian 11.
What is fruit
fruit is:
This is a very strong chess engine, placed second in the 13th world computer chess championship 2005. It uses the UCI (universal chess interface), for chess engines as communication protocol. This means to play against it, you will have to use an UCI capable interface, like knights. This distribution comes with an opening book of moves that the engine can use for the first few moves of the game. This increases performance in the chess games opening.
There are three methods to install fruit
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fruit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fruit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fruit
Install fruit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fruit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fruit
Install fruit 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 fruit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fruit
How To Uninstall fruit on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fruit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fruit
Uninstall fruit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fruit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fruit
Remove fruit Configurations and Data
To remove fruit
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fruit
Remove fruit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fruit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fruit
Dependencies
fruit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fruit
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.