How To Install leela-zero on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install leela-zero on Kali Linux. leela-zero is Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install leela-zero on Kali Linux.

What is leela-zero

leela-zero is:

A Go program with no human provided knowledge. Using MCTS (but without Monte Carlo playouts) and a deep residual convolutional neural network stack.

This is a fairly faithful reimplementation of the system described in the Alpha Go Zero paper “Mastering the Game of Go without Human Knowledge”. For all intents and purposes, it is an open source AlphaGo Zero.

https://deepmind.com/documents/119/agz_unformatted_nature.pdf

No network weights are in this repository. If you manage to obtain the AlphaGo Zero weights, this program will be about as strong, provided you also obtain a few Tensor Processing Units. Lacking those TPUs, the author recommends a top of the line GPU - it’s not exactly the same, but the result would still be an engine that is far stronger than the top humans.

Recomputing the AlphaGo Zero weights will take about 1700 years on commodity hardware. Upstream is running a public, distributed effort to repeat this work. Working together, and especially when starting on a smaller scale, it will take less than 1700 years to get a good network (which you can feed into this program, suddenly making it strong). To help with this effort, run the leelaz-autogtp binary provided in this package. The best-known network weights file is at http://zero.sjeng.org/best-network

There are three methods to install leela-zero on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install leela-zero Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install leela-zero

Install leela-zero Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install leela-zero

Install leela-zero Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install leela-zero using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install leela-zero

How To Uninstall leela-zero on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the leela-zero package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove leela-zero

Uninstall leela-zero And Its Dependencies

To uninstall leela-zero and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove leela-zero

Remove leela-zero Configurations and Data

To remove leela-zero configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge leela-zero

Remove leela-zero configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge leela-zero

Dependencies

leela-zero have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install leela-zero package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.