How To Install knights-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install knights-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install knights-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
