How To Install knights-dbg on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install knights-dbg on Debian 9. knights-dbg is chess interface for the KDE Platform - debugging symbols

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install knights-dbg on Debian 9.

What is knights-dbg

knights-dbg is:

Knights aims to be the ultimate chess resource on your computer. It’s designed to be both friendly to new chess players and functional for Grand Masters. At the moment you can play either against other human or against the machine using an engine like gnuchess.

This package provides debugging symbols for knights.

There are three methods to install knights-dbg 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 knights-dbg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install knights-dbg

Install knights-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install knights-dbg

Install knights-dbg 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 knights-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install knights-dbg

How To Uninstall knights-dbg on Debian 9

To uninstall only the knights-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove knights-dbg

Uninstall knights-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall knights-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove knights-dbg

Remove knights-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove knights-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge knights-dbg

Remove knights-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge knights-dbg

Dependencies

knights-dbg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install knights-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.