Chess clock? [Solved]

[mrizzone]

Hello! I'm looking for a nice check clock, any suggestion? Thanks!

[Fitzcarraldo]

I don't know of any chess clocks in the Entropy or Portage repositories, but a good chess clock is VCC (Virtual Chess Clock). Installing directly rather than via the package manager should be the last resort and I don't normally recommend it, so I suggest you file a request for VCC to be built and added to the Entropy repositories. However, if you are in a hurry, it can be built from source easily as follows (see the file INSTALL in the vcc directory for full installation instructions):

1. Download the tarball virtual-chess-clock-1.6.0-Source.tar.gz from the VCC Web site.
2. Extract the tarball to a directory vcc in your home directory (e.g. /home/mrizzone/vcc).
3. Open a Konsole/Terminal window and enter the following commands:

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$ su
Password: <-- Enter the root user's password.
# cd /home/mrizzone/vcc
# equo install cmake gtkmm gettext
# chmod +x configure
# ./configure
# make
# make install
# exit

To launch vcc you would do the following under your own user account:

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$ vcc

You could of course create an entry for it in the GUI application menu of the desktop environment you are using.

EDIT: Actually, after rebooting I found that an entry for Virtual Chess Clock had been added to the Games sub-menu of Xfce's Applications Menu.

EDIT: Updated to include chmod command.

[mrizzone]

Thanks!

[mrizzone]

How I can make the suggestion? I'm browsing the wiki but can't find it, thanks.

[mrizzone]

I have the following error:

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xxx vcc # ls
AUTHORS         configure            include  redist_win32
ChangeLog       configure.win32.bat  INSTALL  src
changelog.sh    COPYING              NEWS     statistics.sh
CMakeLists.txt  data                 README   update-copyright.sh
xxx vcc # ./configure
bash: ./configure: Permission denied
xxx vcc #


[Fitzcarraldo]

Try changing the permissions:

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chmod +x configure

[Fitzcarraldo]

How I can make the suggestion? I'm browsing the wiki but can't find it, thanks.

Click on the link 'Bugs' at the top right of this page and file a request to add the package there.

[mrizzone]

Try changing the permissions:

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chmod +x configure

Works ok THANKS

[Fitzcarraldo]

You're welcome. I'll update my earlier post to include the command to change the permissions of the script. Please do file a request to add the package to the Entropy repositories for the benefit of others.

[mrizzone]

I did the request, thanks again.