How To Install glaurung on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glaurung on Debian 9.
What is glaurung
glaurung is:
This is a very strong chess engine, finished 4th place at internatonal ChessWar X. It uses the UCI (universal chess interface), for chess engines as communication protocol. This means to play against it, you have to use an UCI capable interface, like knights. Or an xboard adapter like polyglot.
There are three methods to install glaurung 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 glaurung Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glaurung using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glaurung
Install glaurung Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glaurung using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glaurung
Install glaurung 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 glaurung using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glaurung
How To Uninstall glaurung on Debian 9
To uninstall only the glaurung package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glaurung
Uninstall glaurung And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glaurung and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glaurung
Remove glaurung Configurations and Data
To remove glaurung configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glaurung
Remove glaurung configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glaurung configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glaurung
Dependencies
glaurung have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glaurung package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.