Learning chess using software running on Debian GNU/Linux

ChessBase is the most well-known program for serious chess training, and the proprietary file format for storing trees of chess moves/games used by chessbase is the de facto standard. So, if you want to take advantage of the vast databases of chessgames available on the internet, you need a program that can import files in the .cbh format. The only program I have found that runs on Debian GNU/Linux and supports the .cbh format is scibd.

scidb is not currently in Debian, and the package published on the scidb web site failes to run on Debian Wheezy, so installation from source is necessary, and the instructions on the scibd website on how to install it (into Debian GNU/Linux) are incomplete.

sudo apt-get install tcl-dev tk-dev libzzip-dev libglib2.0-dev libxcursor-dev libfontconfig1-dev libsm-dev
wget -nd http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidb/files/scidb-beta-code-r960.tar.gz/download
tar -zxvf download
cd scidb-beta-code-r960/
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
rm -rf scidb-beta-code-r960

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