How to Install and Uninstall fairy-stockfish Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the fairy-stockfish on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "fairy-stockfish" package

This is a short guide on how to install fairy-stockfish on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fairy-stockfish
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fairy-stockfish" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall fairy-stockfish on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fairy-stockfish package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: fairy-stockfish
Source: fairy-stockfish (11.1-1)
Version: 11.1-1+b1
Installed-Size: 573
Maintainer: Yann Dirson
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 9)
Suggests: xboard | scid | tagua
Description: chess variant engine including support for Chess, Shogi and XiangQi variants
Description-md5: a923f3cfccab68767057097e8a0425aa
Homepage: https://github.com/ianfab/Fairy-Stockfish
Section: games
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fairy-stockfish/fairy-stockfish_11.1-1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 248144
MD5sum: feae7c673a680a67795ad6d94b245f54
SHA256: 66fa0c351a12470754e7622cd7ea6f4fecf7db946b960a646d392de7fd508782