How To Install crafty-books-medium on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install crafty-books-medium on Ubuntu 18.04. crafty-books-medium is Medium size opening books for the crafty chess engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install crafty-books-medium on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is crafty-books-medium

crafty-books-medium is:

Opening books that crafty use to evaluate the position during the game. This is the medium version, occupying 4MB and containing +7500 games computed until the 60th ply.

There are three methods to install crafty-books-medium on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install crafty-books-medium Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install crafty-books-medium

Install crafty-books-medium Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install crafty-books-medium using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install crafty-books-medium

Install crafty-books-medium 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install crafty-books-medium using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crafty-books-medium

How To Uninstall crafty-books-medium on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the crafty-books-medium package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove crafty-books-medium

Uninstall crafty-books-medium And Its Dependencies

To uninstall crafty-books-medium and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove crafty-books-medium

Remove crafty-books-medium Configurations and Data

To remove crafty-books-medium configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge crafty-books-medium

Remove crafty-books-medium configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove crafty-books-medium configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crafty-books-medium

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install crafty-books-medium package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.