How To Install crafty-books-small on Ubuntu 18.04

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

Introduction

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

What is crafty-books-small

crafty-books-small is:

Opening books that crafty use to evaluate the position during the game. This is the small version, occupying 1MB and containing +4500 games computed until the 60th ply.

There are three methods to install crafty-books-small 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-small 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-small using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install crafty-books-small Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install crafty-books-small

Install crafty-books-small 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-small using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install crafty-books-small

How To Uninstall crafty-books-small on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove crafty-books-small

Uninstall crafty-books-small And Its Dependencies

To uninstall crafty-books-small 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-small

Remove crafty-books-small Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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