How to Install and Uninstall games-chess Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "games-chess" package

Please follow the instructions below to install games-chess on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall games-chess on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                games-chess
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the games-chess package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: games-chess
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/metapackages
Source: debian-games
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Games Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 24
Depends: games-tasks (= 2.2ubuntu2)
Recommends: 3dchess, brutalchess, chessx, convert-pgn, dreamchess, eboard, eboard-extras-pack1, eleeye, fairymax, fruit, gameclock, glaurung, gmchess, gnuchess, gnuchess-book, gnushogi, hachu, hoichess, pgn-extract, pgn2web, phalanx, polyglot, pychess, scid, shogivar, sjaakii, sjeng, stockfish, tagua, toga2, tourney-manager, uci2wb, xboard, xshogi
Suggests: gnome-games, kdegames, texlive-games
Filename: pool/universe/d/debian-games/games-chess_2.2ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 3780
MD5sum: f39e99f20844ac597a6111c704366936
SHA1: 21dd64d265ea24864032d6f5fa963c6c9acfcfaf
SHA256: 0e544dd0fe5520c11ea1054457498d679680ff4de5d4f7de753eec0bb6b1bd01
Homepage: https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/
Description: Debian's chess games
Description-md5: 9de0bde832e0a948c57350ace1845a8d