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vibaviattigala
i have ubuntu 12.10 i have scid install but when i add an engine its a old engine so how do i install stockfish in ubuntu step by step
thank you
IM pfren
The optimal is compiling stockfish yourself, as the precompiled versions are slightly limited (they don't use SSE instructions/prefetching).
Nevertheless, you can download the precompiled engines from the Stockfish site, and extract the one which best matches your CPU/OS architecture to a directory in your %HOME. The download is a zip file, and the precompiled engines are inside the /Linux directory.
Make it executable ( "chmod +x stock*" in a terminal window) and then point the engine on the scid preferences. You are ready to use it.
wow thank you very much :) it worked i wonder whats that chmod +x do:)
AnthonyCG
This might be useful: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html
The above small tutorial explains well the permissions issue in *nix systems.
If you want the engine to be used by many users, extract it at a system-wide directory, e.g. /opt (you will need superuser status to do that) and then use
sudo chmod 0755 stock*
to make it accessible and executable by anybody.
You could also chown the file to be owned by root, but AFAIK Ubuntu has no root user by default.
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