Lila is a free and open-source online chess game server that allows you to play chess with other players from all over the world. It is developed by the same team that created the popular Lichess chess website. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Lila on Clear Linux Latest.
Before we can begin with the installation process, you need to make sure you have the following:
The first thing you need to do is update your system's package database and upgrade all the installed packages to their latest versions. You can do this by running the following commands in the terminal:
sudo swupd update
sudo swupd upgrade
Before we can install Lila, we need to install some dependencies. Run the following command in the terminal to install them:
sudo swupd bundle-add git go
Now that we have all the dependencies installed, we can download Lila's source code from GitHub. Use the following command to clone the lila repository:
git clone https://github.com/ornicar/lila.git
This will create a new lila directory in your current working directory.
Navigate to the lila directory that we cloned in the previous step using the following command:
cd lila
Next, we need to build Lila using the make command. Run the following command to build Lila:
sudo make
This will take some time as it will compile all the necessary packages.
Once Lila has been built, we can start it using the following command:
sudo make start
This command will start the Lila server and you will be able to access it using your web browser by visiting http://
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Lila on Clear Linux Latest. Lila is an excellent online chess game server that allows you to play chess with other players from all over the world. By following these simple steps, you can now install Lila and start playing chess online.
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