Debian package for a XBoard 4.4.0 beta version available

[hgm]

For those who want to do some bet testing: I made a beta version of XBoard 4.4.0 available on my website as binary Debian package:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/xboard ... 1_i386.deb

Please let me know if it works / doesn't work!

[Volker Annuss]

Hello Harm Geert,

it does not install here on Ubuntu 8.10 64 Bit. When trying to install it by clicking your link it gives this:



Greetings
Volker

[hgm]

That seem to be normal for 32-bit binary packages on 64-bit systems. There is a possibility to override that, though, see this thread on the WinBoard forum:

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... =2&t=50198

[Volker Annuss]

Thank you, I got it running now.

- Before installing your package I had to install the package xaw3dg.
- firstChessProgram defaults to fairymax which I don't have. It is possible to override it with -firstChessProgramm Hermann.

I will play a little more with it the next days.

[hgm]

I guess that only when you apt-get install from the Ubuntu server such dependencies will be resolved automatically. Is this a dependency that the xboard 4.2.7 package did not have? Perhaps it would be a good idea to first install the xboard 4.2.7 package through "sudo apt-get install xboard" to make sure all dependencies are satisied, and then install the xboard 4.4.0 package.

Indeed the new default engine is Fairy-Max. I prepared a package for that earlier:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/fairym ... 2_i386.deb

You can run it with any other engine through the -fcp option. When you have polyglot installed, you should even be able to run it with UCI engines. E.g.

xboard -fcp fruit -fUCI

(requires fruit and polyglot packages).

[Volker Annuss]

The xboard 4.2.7 package has that dependency but I uninstalled it before installing your beta.

[hgm]

Well, I looked in the control file inside the package, and it does list this dependency. So I guess it is just that this way of installing (clicking a link to a .deb package) does make no attempt to resolve any dependencies, and only installs the package you asked for.

[hgm]

Note that the package has been bugfixed and is now at:

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/xboard ... 2_i386.deb

It should now run without problems even when desktop effects (compiz) are switched on. The isues there were caused by compiler-flag settings.