Ubuntu Linux and Chess -- Installation

The first part is the installation.

Fire up your preferred program to do installation of packages on Ubuntu.  I use Synaptic, there are a couple of other options.

You need to install this list of packages, and all of their dependencies.  I found the list by searching for "chess" in Synaptic, and ticking the boxes next to each of the programs (right click and select "Mark for Installation"):

• fairymax
• xboard
• dreamchess
• stockfish
• fruit
• glaurung
• toga2
• polyglot
• knights
• sjeng
• phalanx
• eboard
• gameclock
• scid
• crafty
• tourney-maager
• gnuchess

Let the programs install.  I found that I had to reboot after installing everything -- you actually just need to restart the X server and font server, but rebooting is probably simpler and almost as fast.