How To Install shogivar on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shogivar on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is shogivar
shogivar is:
Shogi Variants is a user interface for many variants of Shogi (japanese chess).
All games can be played by 2 players, and most (except Tenjiku) against the builtin computer player.
Supported variants:
- Micro-Shogi
- Mini-Shogi
- Judkin’s Shog
- Whale Shogi
- Tori (Bird) Shogi
- Yari Shogi
- Heian (Early) Shogi
- Modern Shogi
- Sho (Small) Shogi
- Wa Shogi (2 variants)
- Chu (Middle) Shogi
- Heian Dai (Early Large) Shogi
- Dai (Large) Shogi
- Tenjiku (Exotic) Shogi
- Dai-Dai (Huge) Shogi
- Maka-Dai-Dai (Ultra Huge) Shogi
- Tai (Grand) Shogi
This is the C port of Steve Evans’ Shogi Variants for Windows.
There are three methods to install shogivar 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 shogivar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shogivar using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shogivar
Install shogivar Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shogivar using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shogivar
Install shogivar 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 shogivar using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shogivar
How To Uninstall shogivar on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the shogivar package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shogivar
Uninstall shogivar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shogivar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shogivar
Remove shogivar Configurations and Data
To remove shogivar configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shogivar
Remove shogivar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shogivar configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shogivar
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shogivar package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
