Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:13:49 03/28/01
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On March 28, 2001 at 13:52:19, ERIQ wrote: >I am now trying to get xboard and crafty working under debian and can't seem >to get them on the same sheet of music. xboard seems to be working out side of >the fact that it can't find gnuchess, crafty works at the command line well, but >when I do: xboard -fcp crafty it seems to come up and do nothing !! at the top I >see it says root-crafty 18.5 but no action it won't move or respond to moves >being played I have gotten it to work under other flavors of linux and even this >one for a moment but now have no idea why it isn't working. everything is in >/usr/bin/xboard-4.2.3 so what's up ??????????????? gerrrrr. You are playing with fire in a lake of gasoline. 1. Don't run as "root". 2. You can't run xboard/crafty in the /usr/bin directory, as crafty needs access to its book files and they must be writable. best advice is to install a new copy of xboard (particularly use the most recent 4.2.3 version) in a directory below your home directory. Install crafty's executable and .bin files in that _same_ directory. While in that directory type "./xboard -fcp ./crafty" and all should work flawlessly. But don't run as root. That bypasses file permissions, and will let you clobber all sorts of things.
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