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
TCLTK_BPATH= $SNAP/usr/share/tcltk
TCL_LIBRARY= $TCLTK_BPATH/tcl8.6:$TCL_LIBRARY
TK_LIBRARY= $TCLTK_BPATH/tk8.6:$TK_LIBRARY
TCLLIBPATH= $SNAP/usr/lib/tcltk $SNAP/usr/lib/tcltk/x86_64-linux-gnu $TCLLIBPATH
** 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
stockfish available in $SNAP/usr/games/
** 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 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.
** Version
The snap package version contains the svn revision number of scidvspc
within it. If manually building the snap, it will try to pick the
latest revision of the code.
** In this Release
Sound, Figurines font, tDom, Network (FICS), ...
Check Changelog for details including previous releases
** NOTE
This is just a experimental snap packaging of scid_vs_pc by HanishKVC