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Availability of gnuchess or the full xboard suite

Asked by dpmccul

I would like to have gnuchess. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be available for Ubuntu.
I can run configure with no problems but when I try to make it from the standard download, I get errors:
 error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static declaration

I downloaded xboard from ubuntu, but the download did not contain the associated games, and thus will
not run: No file or directory for gnuchessx.

When will gnuchess be available for ubuntu?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello

Gnuchess is available in the universe repos of ubuntu

To install gnuchess you should have the universe repos enabled

to do the same refer the following link:

http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

after getting all the required repositories enabled

Type the following command in a terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal)

sudo aptitude install gnuchess

and you should be done..

Note: If you get:

" Unable to enable 3D mode
You are unable to play in 3D mode due to the following problems:
No Python OpenGL support
No Python GTKGLExt support"

Then nstall the python-opengl and libgtkglext1 packages....

sudo apt-get install python-opengl
sudo apt-get install libgtkglext1

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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