How To Install xboard on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xboard
on Kali Linux.
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 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 xboard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xboard
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install xboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xboard
using apt
by running the following command:
Install xboard 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.
After updating apt database, We can install xboard
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall xboard on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the xboard
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall xboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xboard
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove xboard Configurations and Data
To remove xboard
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
Dependencies
xboard have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xboard
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.