Turning on 3D Chessboard in Feisty

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 9:53 pm. 17 comments

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/

17 Replies

  1. Jonathan Cohen Mar 29th 2007

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

  2. Pavel Mar 30th 2007

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

  3. jonti Apr 21st 2007

    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 Apr 25th 2007

    Didn’t work for me.

  5. nick newbie May 7th 2007

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

  6. D28 May 13th 2007

    Thanks, fixed my problem

  7. Werner May 18th 2007

    Perfect! Thx, worked for me.

  8. Revant Nandgaonkar May 23rd 2007

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

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

  9. jabbar Jun 20th 2007

    thanks for the tip! Cheers.

  10. anish Jul 14th 2007

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

  11. wrwrwr Aug 7th 2007

    Works with python 2.5 also.

  12. Bongo Oct 4th 2007

    Works for me

  13. Klaus Oct 9th 2007

    great work,thx…..

  14. Sthtodo Nov 2nd 2007

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

  15. cybersurg Feb 19th 2008

    Thanks. Worked perfectly first time.


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