How to Install and Uninstall games-chess Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 28,2024

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

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1. Install "games-chess" package

This guide let you learn how to install games-chess on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                games-chess
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "games-chess" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall games-chess 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 games-chess package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: games-chess
Source: debian-games
Version: 5
Installed-Size: 21
Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Architecture: all
Depends: games-tasks (= 5)
Recommends: 3dchess, brutalchess, chessx, dreamchess, eboard, ethereal-chess, fairy-stockfish, fairymax, glaurung, gnuchess, gnuchess-book, gnushogi, gpsshogi, gpsshogi-viewer, hachu, hoichess, pgn-extract, pgn2web, phalanx, polyglot, pychess, scid, shogivar, sjaakii, sjeng, stockfish, tagua, toga2, tourney-manager, uci2wb, xboard, xshogi
Suggests: crazywa, fathom, fruit, gnome-games, kdegames, leela-zero, liblizzie-java, texlive-games
Description: Debian's chess games
Description-md5: 9de0bde832e0a948c57350ace1845a8d
Homepage: https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/
Tag: game::board:chess, role::metapackage, role::program, use::gameplaying
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/debian-games/games-chess_5_all.deb
Size: 5404
MD5sum: 070a53ea7db39ae0b84bad4a008d37a6
SHA256: 5ca70731906a79cf2925245315576081b17c245367154332d193c956500f662c