How to Install and Uninstall stockfish Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "stockfish" package

This guide let you learn how to install stockfish on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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 guidance below to uninstall stockfish on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: stockfish
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Installed-Size: 278
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Oliver Korff
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7-0.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Suggests: polyglot, xboard | scid
Filename: pool/universe/s/stockfish/stockfish_7-0.1_amd64.deb
Size: 135642
MD5sum: dc2e96cca549bb9155de906677204740
SHA1: 00bea1eea7066934630333b92604ffbf6c05d8b2
SHA256: 9451cd9fcfb57540c51af48406dcc76d2aecab4a46297a0d0030b82fc2f6f7e9
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
Homepage: http://www.stockfishchess.com
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu