SCID vs. PC is a Chess Toolkit Shane's Chess Information Database is a powerful Chess Toolkit, with which one can create huge databases, run chess engines, and play casual games against the computer or online with the Free Internet Chess Server. It was originally written by Shane Hudson, and has received strong contribution from Pascal Georges and others.
Scid vs. PC began with bug-fixes for the computer-versus-player features of Scid (hence the name), but has evolved into a solid alternative with many new features and interfaces. The project is authored by Stevenaaus and numerous contributors
** Source
https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/code/HEAD/tarball
svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/scidvspc/code/ scidvspc-code
** Environment
TCL_LIBRARY, TK_LIBRARY and TCLLIBPATH env variables need to point to the tcltk from the snap. Layout mechanism of snapcraft/snap used to ensure that tcltk from snap maps to the standard expected paths on the runtime system.
** Home
The AppWorkingDir is user's $HOME/snap/scidvspc-hkvc/<revision>
$SNAP_USER_DATA points to this AppWorkingDir.
** ToRun
type scidvspc-hkvc.scidvspc in a console/terminal
The default stockfish version from ubuntu is made available in $SNAP/usr/games/ Additionally stockfish avx2 version is also provided in the same location.
** Sound
Snap doesnt auto connect the alsa interface to snaps. The user is required to explicitly connect the snap's alsa plug to the system's alsa interface.
For this run the below
sudo snap connect scidvspc-hkvc:alsa
NOTE> If there is a issue with sound folders setup, cross verify that the sounds folder under options->sounds is set to
/snap/scidvspc-hkvc/current/usr/local/share/scid/sounds
** Network FICS Ping
One needs to run
sudo snap connect scidvspc-hkvc:network-observe
to allow the snap to use ping (FICS server), else it will give a error dialog, when connecting to FICS.
** Source for this snap packaging
the dev snap directory used by snapcraft to generate this snap package is in $SNAP/usr/share/doc/scidvspc-hkvc/
You will also find this among my https://github.com/hanishkvc repositories.
NOTE: due to a issue with underlying sound helper of tcl, you may get audio for every alternate sound move announcement.
** Version
Custom overriding of pull wrt scidvspc svn based source is implemented to overcome a issue noticed with latest snapcraft wrt svn repositories.
This snap includes some of my patches, which arent upstreamed or not of interest to upstream, so the svn version of scidvspc to build on is fixed here in the snapcraft.yaml, to ensure that these out of upstream patches apply properly, to a verified version. However one can try to change to a newer version and cross check if the out of upstream patches work ok with them or not.
The revision of the upstream is picked from the same mentioned in the version string.
** In this Release
Sound, Figurines font, tDom, Network (FICS), Online tablebases, ...
Visualisation of analysis engines' PVs on analysis boards.
Allow user set 1st AnalysisEngine to be used as a coach wrt play-uci.
Check Changelog for details including previous releases
** NOTE
This is just a experimental snap packaging of ScidVsPC by HanishKVC, along with some additions and patches (some of which have been upstreamed).
Thank you for your report. Information you provided will help us investigate further.
There was an error while sending your report. Please try again later.
You are about to open
Do you wish to proceed?
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed from the command line on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the snappy repository from the terminal. Leap 15.5 users, for example, can do this with the following command:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.5 snappy
Swap out openSUSE_Leap_15.5 for openSUSE_Leap_15.4 or openSUSE_Tumbleweed if you’re using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new snappy repository:
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Snap can now be installed with the following:
sudo zypper install snapd
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or source /etc/profile to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the snapd and the snapd.apparmor services with the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor
To install scidvspc-hkvc, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install scidvspc-hkvc
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft.io now.
