How To Install polyglot on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polyglot on Ubuntu.
What is polyglot
polyglot is:
Common chess frontends have a winboard/xboard input interface, modern chess engines speak the UCI “universal chess interface” protocol. This protocol adaptor makes it possible to use standard chess frontends, like xboard or scid with UCI speaking engines and play chess against them.
There are three methods to install polyglot on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install polyglot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install polyglot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install polyglot
Install polyglot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install polyglot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install polyglot
Install polyglot 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 polyglot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install polyglot
How To Uninstall polyglot on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the polyglot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove polyglot
Uninstall polyglot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall polyglot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove polyglot
Remove polyglot Configurations and Data
To remove polyglot configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge polyglot
Remove polyglot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove polyglot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polyglot
Dependencies
polyglot have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polyglot package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.