Installing Sharly Chess on Linux (experimental)

:warning: EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE!
Beta testers have reported successful installations on Ubuntu and Mint, but we are still far from a stable and fully supported distribution for all Linux platforms. Furthermore, the Sharly Chess developers are unable to provide support for this aspect and are looking for Linux experts. Get in touch!

Sharly Chess is also available for Windows and MacOS.

Requirements

  • An Intel/AMD or ARM computer with a Linux distribution (see below the tested distributions).

Installing Sharly Chess

Download the latest release of Sharly Chess (v3.4.3) for Intel/AMD x86_64

Download the latest release of Sharly Chess (v3.4.3) for ARM® aarch64

:information_source: See the changes of the latest release

  1. Unzip the downloaded archive.
  2. Inside, you’ll find a folder named after the version number. Move this folder to a location of your choice. We recommend placing it inside a parent folder named sharly-chess — this lets you keep multiple versions organized, and the automatic updater will install future versions into this same location.

:information_source: See the previous releases

Running Sharly Chess

To start the application, simply double-click the SharlyChess.AppImage application inside the version folder.

When run for the first time it will open your default web browser to display the Sharly Chess interface with the opportunity to configure your preferences.

On subsequent runs, Sharly Chess will open the admin interface in your default web browser.