# Installer xboard avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman
Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de xboard pour les workflows d'agents IA.
## installation
```sh
sudo av install brew:xboard
```
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:
### macOS
- Homebrew (100%):
```sh
brew install xboard
```
Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata
- MacPorts (94%):
```sh
sudo port install xboard
```
Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: games/xboard/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
### Linux
- apk (92%):
```sh
sudo apk add xboard
```
Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xboard from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
- Debian apt (92%):
```sh
sudo apt install xboard
```
Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: xboard from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
- dnf (92%):
```sh
sudo dnf install xboard
```
Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: xboard from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst
- Nix (92%):
```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#xboard
```
Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xb/xboard/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman (92%):
```sh
sudo pacman -S xboard
```
Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: xboard from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
## Faits du paquet
- **Clé du paquet:** brew:xboard
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.9.1
- **Résumé source:** Graphical user interface for chess
- **Page d'accueil:**
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00
## exécutables
- xboard (alias)
## Comportement d'installation
- Bouteille: non disponible
## Version et fraîcheur
- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 4.9.1
## Historique du projet et usages
XBoard is the GNU Project's graphical chessboard and chess front end for Unix and Unix-like systems using the X Window System. It supports local engines, Internet Chess Servers, correspondence chess by email, saved games, and many chess variants.
### Historique du projet
Tim Mann's project-history page says he found GNU Chess 4.0 and xboard 1.2 in 1991, began fixing bugs and missing features, and became the maintainer. He also says that by early 2000 most of the contemporary xboard/WinBoard code had been written after he took over.
The project evolved from a front end for GNU Chess into a general engine interface. Mann recounts that users began asking how to connect their own engines, with Shay Bushinsky asking in November 1994, and that the ad-hoc GNU Chess communication grew into documented and extended engine support.
WinBoard, the Microsoft Windows counterpart, came out of Mann's work to port xboard to Windows NT around 1993. He split the code into platform-specific front ends and a shared chess backend, and later kept xboard and WinBoard released together.
### Historique d'adoption
The GNU project page describes XBoard as a front end for engines such as GNU Chess and Crafty, Internet chess servers, and email correspondence chess. Tim Mann's 2000 interview describes rapid growth in WinBoard-compatible chess programs and notes that what began as GNU Chess integration had become a compatibility target for many amateur and commercial chess programs.
The GNU page also documents XBoard's later stewardship through the GNU package infrastructure: stable source releases on GNU download servers, development on Savannah, mailing lists, bug trackers, and developer releases for testing.
### Modes d'utilisation
Users run XBoard to play against a local chess engine, analyze games, connect to servers such as FICS or ICC, play correspondence chess through CMail, or review PGN files. The GNU page emphasizes international chess, xiangqi, shogi, Makruk, Chess960, Crazyhouse, and other variants.
For engine authors and chess-package maintainers, XBoard is also the reference GUI for the Chess Engine Communication Protocol lineage. It can also work with UCI engines through the Polyglot protocol adapter, according to the GNU XBoard links section.
### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
XBoard matters because it separated chess engines from chess user interfaces in the Unix free-software world. That separation helped make engine packages composable: a distro could package a GUI, many engines, protocol adapters, and server clients as interoperable parts instead of monolithic chess programs.
It is also a classic GNU/X11 package: old enough to carry pre-Git history, still distributed through GNU infrastructure, and broad enough to touch GUI packaging, engine protocols, online chess, and variant chess communities.
### Chronologie
- 1991: Tim Mann finds GNU Chess 4.0 and xboard 1.2, starts fixing xboard, and becomes maintainer.
- 1992: Internet Chess Server support is added after patches from John Chanak.
- 1993: WinBoard begins as a Windows NT porting project and shares backend code with xboard.
- 1994: Requests from engine authors help push the documented XBoard/WinBoard engine protocol beyond GNU Chess.
- 1998: Tim Mann notes version 4.0.0 as a major release point in his history interview.
- 2016: GNU XBoard 4.9.0 appears as a stable release on the GNU project page and Savannah/Git tags.
### Related projects
- Closely related projects include GNU Chess, Crafty, WinBoard, CMail, FICS, ICC, Polyglot, and chess engines that speak the XBoard/WinBoard protocol.
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## Notes de sécurité
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets
- Debian apt - xboard - 4.9.1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: xboard from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | X Window System Chess Board | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
- Nix - xboard: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/xb/xboard/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - xboard - 4.9.1-2build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: xboard from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | X Window System Chess Board | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
- apk - xboard - 4.9.1-r5: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xboard from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Graphical chessboard for the X Window System | https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard
- apk - xboard-doc - 4.9.1-r5: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xboard-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Graphical chessboard for the X Window System (documentation) | https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard
- apk - xboard-lang - 4.9.1-r5: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: xboard-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Languages for package xboard | https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard
- dnf - xboard - 4.9.1-25.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: xboard from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | An X Window System graphical chessboard | https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
- pacman - xboard - 4.9.1-4: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: xboard from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Graphical user interfaces for chess | https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
- MacPorts - xboard: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: games/xboard/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
## Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/xboard.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/xboard.yml)
## Sources
- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph