How To Install gnugo on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnugo on CentOS 7. gnugo is Text based go program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnugo on CentOS 7.

What is gnugo

This software is a free program that plays the game of Go. GNU Go has played thousands of games on the NNGS Go server. GNU Go is now also playing regularly on the Legend Go Server in Taiwan and the WING server in Japan.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnugo on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnugo.

Install gnugo on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gnugo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnugo

Install gnugo on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gnugo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnugo

How To Uninstall gnugo on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gnugo

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnugo on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.