[H] Scid on Ubuntu

[playjunior]

I'm completely new to this Linux stuff, and apparently having trouble installing scid. Can anyone please create/upload a .deb package?

Thanks a lot.

[Anton]

I'm completely new to this Linux stuff, and apparently having trouble installing scid. Can anyone please create/upload a .deb package?

Thanks a lot.

have you tried this command in a console?

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sudo apt-get install scid

[playjunior]

Yes, it installs a version of scid which is from 2004 I believe

[Volker Pittlik]

go here: http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html and download the sourcecode. You'll need gcc and the tcl/tk development packages as well. Follow the instructions in the documentation.

[shiv]

Unfortunately, the instructions on the page for linux are not complete and what is worse is the lack of a self installer for linux. For linux newbies this can be a nightmare.

I will try to contribute a linux deb package

The instructions otherwise are:

1. "sudo apt-get install tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev tk8.5 tk8.5-dev g++ gcc"
Wow, almost sound like profanity!

2. Extract the tar ball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scid ... 2?download with "tar xvfj scid-4.0.tar.bz2"
3. Go into the scid folder
4. ./configure
5. make
6. "sudo make install"
7. Now run scid from the terminal by just typing "scid"

This procedure can be similarly used to compile many other packages from sources.

[playjunior]

Unfortunately, the instructions on the page for linux are not complete and what is worse is the lack of a self installer for linux. For linux newbies this can be a nightmare.

I will try to contribute a linux deb package

The instructions otherwise are:

1. "sudo apt-get install tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev tk8.5 tk8.5-dev g++ gcc"
Wow, almost sound like profanity!

2. Extract the tar ball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scid ... 2?download with "tar xvfj scid-4.0.tar.bz2"
3. Go into the scid folder
4. ./configure
5. make
6. "sudo make install"
7. Now run scid from the terminal by just typing "scid"

This procedure can be similarly used to compile many other packages from sources.

Thanks A LOT. Worked perfectly.

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

I will try to contribute a linux deb package

Debian already has the very latest versions.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/scid

[shiv]

I meant ubuntu deb package. Quite sad that debian and ubuntu are drifting further and further apart. Ubuntu has now become the "windows" of linux However, good to hear that debian is up to date with scid.

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

I meant ubuntu deb package. Quite sad that debian and ubuntu are drifting further and further apart. Ubuntu has now become the "windows" of linux However, good to hear that debian is up to date with scid.

I'm guessing there is some easy way to rebuild the deb package for ubuntu but I admit I don't know what the recommended method for that is.

[michiguel]

I meant ubuntu deb package. Quite sad that debian and ubuntu are drifting further and further apart. Ubuntu has now become the "windows" of linux However, good to hear that debian is up to date with scid.

I'm guessing there is some easy way to rebuild the deb package for ubuntu but I admit I don't know what the recommended method for that is.

A debian package is the same as Ubuntu, or not anymore?

Miguel