How To Install fairy-stockfish on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fairy-stockfish on Kali Linux.
What is fairy-stockfish
fairy-stockfish is:
Fairy-Stockfish is a chess variant engine derived from Stockfish designed for the support of fairy chess variants and easy extensibility with more games. It can play various regional, historical, and modern chess variants as well as games with user-defined rules. For compatibility with graphical user interfaces it supports the UCI, UCCI, USI, and CECP/XBoard protocols.
The goal of the project is to create an engine supporting a large variety of chess-like games, equipped with the powerful search of Stockfish. Despite its generality the playing strength is on a very high level in almost all supported variants. Due to its multi-protocol support Fairy-Stockfish works with almost any chess variant GUI.
Variants larger than 8x8 are only supported on 64-bit platforms.
There are three methods to install fairy-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 fairy-stockfish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install fairy-stockfish using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fairy-stockfishInstall fairy-stockfish Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install fairy-stockfish using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fairy-stockfishInstall fairy-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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install fairy-stockfish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fairy-stockfishHow To Uninstall fairy-stockfish on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the fairy-stockfish package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fairy-stockfishUninstall fairy-stockfish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fairy-stockfish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fairy-stockfishRemove fairy-stockfish Configurations and Data
To remove fairy-stockfish configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fairy-stockfishRemove fairy-stockfish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fairy-stockfish configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fairy-stockfishDependencies
fairy-stockfish have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fairy-stockfish package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
