To turn on the 3D chessboard in glChess, now include in gnome-games 2.8, do the following:

  1. Install 3D drivers for your video card if you have not already. It may work without these drivers on some cards.
  2. Install dependences
    sudo apt-get install python2.4 python-imaging python2.4-opengl libgtkglext1
  3. Download python-gtkglext1
    wget -c http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/glchess/python-gtkglext1_1.1.0-2feisty_i386.deb
  4. Install python-gtkglext1
    sudo dpkg -i python-gtkglext1_1.1.0-2feisty_i386.deb
  5. Launch Applications –> Games –> Chess
  6. Go to View menu and select 3D

For an extra challenge, install the crafty engine
sudo apt-get install crafty

For more information, visit: http://glchess.sourceforge.net/

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17 Responses to “Turning on 3D Chessboard in Feisty”

  1. There is no 64-bit version of gtkglext. Hence, I still have the problem.

  2. Pavel says:

    why do people keep posting wget commands on websites? I mean we got HYPERLINKS meanwhile…

  3. jonti says:

    ah, thanks, worked for me

    @pavel — wget can be used in a script, it *fetches* the resource mentioned in the http url it is given as a parameter

  4. C. Meeker says:

    Didn’t work for me.

  5. nick newbie says:

    Thx, worked for me and also easy to follow!!!

  6. D28 says:

    Thanks, fixed my problem

  7. Werner says:

    Perfect! Thx, worked for me.

  8. Yes… it works and for the people with other Architecture than i386 try :

    http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/python-gtkglext1

  9. jabbar says:

    thanks for the tip! Cheers.

  10. anish says:

    thanks a lot! worked for me too! for a HP DV2000t.

  11. wrwrwr says:

    Works with python 2.5 also.

  12. Bongo says:

    Works for me

  13. Klaus says:

    great work,thx…..

  14. Sthtodo says:

    doesnt work! when i try first command he says he cant find the package phyton2.4 !!

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  17. cybersurg says:

    Thanks. Worked perfectly first time.

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