How To Install stockfish on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install stockfish on Kali Linux. stockfish is strong chess engine, to play chess against

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stockfish on Kali Linux.

What is stockfish

stockfish is:

free chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is a chess engine, so it requires an UCI (universal chess interface) compatible GUI like XBoard (with PolyGlot), eboard, Jose, Arena or scid in order to be used comfortably. It is the strongest open source chess engine by october 2009 in the “computer chess rating list” CCRL. Written in C++ it uses multiple threads and cores. It is capable of Chess960 and has experimental support for polyglot opening books.

There are three methods to install stockfish 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 stockfish Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stockfish

Install stockfish Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install stockfish using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install stockfish

Install stockfish 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 stockfish using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stockfish

How To Uninstall stockfish on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the stockfish package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stockfish

Uninstall stockfish And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stockfish

Remove stockfish Configurations and Data

To remove stockfish configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge stockfish

Remove stockfish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stockfish

Dependencies

stockfish have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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