1.5 Installing ChessDB to a UNIX/Linux computer from the source code
- Download the ChessDB source code from Sourceforge. The source code is a compressed tar file. Tar files have the extension .tar and when compressed .tar.gz. All source distributions of ChessDB will be in a file like ChessDB-3.6.4.tar.gz,
- Decompress and untar the source code, which being a .tar.gz file, can be done as
$ tar xvfz ChessDB-3.6.4.tar.gz
$ cd ChessDB-3.6.4
$ ./configureEdit the installation path in the Makefile, which will have been created by the configure script.
$ make
$ make install
That should have the code installed.
If you would like to contribute to the tutorial or see anything that should be updated, corrected or improved, please contact David Kirkby.