Xboard and GNUChess on AIX (Chess)

Step by step to install XBoard and GNUChess on AIX. PS: GNUChess is a dependency for installing XBoard.

Download package: xboard-4.2.6-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm e gnuchess-4.0.pl80-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

If you don’t have wget installed, install it using yum: (If you don’t have yum, follow this tutorial)

Once the package has been downloaded:

Install the RPM package:

If you are inside a CDE session, just run:

if you see erros like this:

You will need to follow the steps below and install the fonts. Install all packages via smitty: X11.fnt.xorg.* and then:

Done!