How to Install and Uninstall stockfish Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "stockfish" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install stockfish on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall stockfish on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                stockfish
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the stockfish package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: stockfish
Architecture: amd64
Version: 11-1build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Milan Zamazal
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 302
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libstdc++6 (>= 9)
Suggests: polyglot, xboard | scid
Filename: pool/universe/s/stockfish/stockfish_11-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 150544
MD5sum: 3968b1ecca7cb4ee417c7fb263910b77
SHA1: 2599c50747ccd3ffb8c1a58445d6ad1c60cbc557
SHA256: 0115fc3fbac0560064cf3f8ac6fcd182948dc92dddbd30af22ba4d35d8103cd4
SHA512: d5fcf2d7b27d3d9566c4972d6356c0f04e4b14e05af9dfe0e0e33170774cf79fa61962f2da3528c9daaec2a272cc385d0666e7c496e9931380970d5a226155a9
Homepage: https://stockfishchess.org
Description-en: strong chess engine, to play chess against
free chess engine derived from Glaurung 2.1. It is a chess engine, so it
requires an UCI (universal chess interface) compatible GUI like XBoard
(with PolyGlot), eboard, Jose, Arena or scid in order to be used comfortably.
It is the strongest open source chess engine by october 2009 in the
"computer chess rating list" CCRL. Written in C++ it uses multiple threads
and cores. It is capable of Chess960 and has experimental support for polyglot
opening books.
Description-md5: 1c88e787fea0cbec572e73232f9d09df