How To Install tagua on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tagua

tagua is:

Tagua is a frontend for a variety of board games. Currently supported games include chess, shogi and a couple of variants of those games.

Tagua is based on a powerful plugin system that allows many games to share the same graphical framework, game history handling, interoperability with AI engines and connectivity to network servers.

It currently has support for xboard-compatible chess engines, and xshogi-compatible shogi engines, as well as network play on chess ICS servers.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tagua

Install tagua Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tagua

Install tagua 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 tagua using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tagua

How To Uninstall tagua on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tagua

Uninstall tagua And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tagua

Remove tagua Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tagua

Remove tagua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tagua

Dependencies

tagua have the following dependencies:

• tagua-data
• kio
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libkf5completion5
• libkf5configcore5
• libkf5configwidgets5
• libkf5coreaddons5
• libkf5i18n5
• libkf5kdegamesprivate1

References

• tagua website

Summary

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