How To Install polyglot on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polyglot
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is polyglot
polyglot is:
Common chess frontends have a winboard/xboard input interface, modern chess engines speak the UCI “universal chess interface” protocol. This protocol adaptor makes it possible to use standard chess frontends, like xboard or scid with UCI speaking engines and play chess against them.
There are three methods to install polyglot
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 polyglot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install polyglot
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install polyglot
Install polyglot Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install polyglot
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install polyglot
Install polyglot 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 polyglot
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install polyglot
How To Uninstall polyglot on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the polyglot
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove polyglot
Uninstall polyglot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall polyglot
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove polyglot
Remove polyglot Configurations and Data
To remove polyglot
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge polyglot
Remove polyglot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove polyglot
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polyglot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polyglot
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.