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
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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.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install scidvspc-hkvc, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install scidvspc-hkvc --beta
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