How To Install pychess on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pychess on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pychess
pychess is:
The goal of pychess, is to provide a fully featured, nice looking, easy to use chess client for the gnome-desktop.
The client should be usable both to those totally new to chess, and those who want to use a computer to further enchance their play.
Features include: Tabbed interface pgn+epd read/write support Hints and spymode xboard/cecp engine support Builtin Python based engine Openingbook using sqlite Clean interface and dialogs Builtin move validator Legal move highlighting Supports drag’n’drop.
There are three methods to install pychess 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 pychess Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pychess using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pychess
Install pychess Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pychess using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pychess
Install pychess 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 pychess using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pychess
How To Uninstall pychess on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pychess package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pychess
Uninstall pychess And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pychess and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pychess
Remove pychess Configurations and Data
To remove pychess configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pychess
Remove pychess configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pychess configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pychess
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pychess package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
