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Hi I'm installing stockfish to be used on scid. I followed these two tutorials, using stockfish from the stockfish website rather than from git.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/scid--stockfish
http://support.stockfishchess.org/kb/advanced-topics/compiling-stockfish-on-linux

I installed scid by:

sudo apt-get install scid

I downloaded engine binaries for stockfish7 for Linux from

https://stockfishchess.org/download/

I read that you need to compile it first so i compiled the stockfish engine with sudo apt-get install git g++. Tested it with make profile-build ARCH=x86-32 then I went to add the engine in scid, with settings:

name:stockfish
command: stockfish
directory: /home/user/Desktop/stockfish-7-linux/Linux/src/.stockfish
UCI on

but then It tells me that unable to start the program: stockfish.

that error is the default response for any error. If I typed in folders that don't exist and a file that doesn't exist, it gives that error too. What am I doing wrong?

terdon
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Qwertford
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First of all you need the absolute path to command , in my case:

/usr/local/bin/stockfish

Directory i just pressed button at the right that point to scid in your home directory :

~/.scid

Notice that if you have done steps on stockfish page the final step is :

./stockfish

But to use it as i did do one more step :

sudo make install

This give the output directory .

E_Angel
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