How To Install xboard on Debian 12

Learn how to install xboard on Debian 12 with this tutorial. xboard is X Window System Chess Board

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xboard on Debian 12.

What is xboard

xboard is:

XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface for chess programs, for the Internet Chess Server, or for electronic mail correspondence chess. It supports all major forms of chess, such as international chess, xiangqi and shogi. XBoard can also be used by itself as viewer for stored chess games.

XBoard uses the Helvetica font (located in the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages) by default. However, other fonts can be specified via a command line option or an X resource.

There are three methods to install xboard on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install xboard Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xboard

Install xboard Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xboard

Install xboard 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install xboard

How To Uninstall xboard on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove xboard

Uninstall xboard And Its Dependencies

To uninstall xboard and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xboard

Remove xboard Configurations and Data

To remove xboard configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xboard

Remove xboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xboard

Dependencies

xboard have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xboard package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.