Installation Guide

Windows

Manual Installation

For 32-bit operating systems, please download *_x86-setup.exeand install it.
For 64-bit operating systems, please download *_x64-setup.exeand install it.
For ARM64 architecture, please download *_arm64-setup.exeand install it.

MacOS

Manual Installation

For Apple Silicon chips, please download *_aarch64.dmgand install.
For Intel chips, please download *_x64.dmgand install it.

Error message

If you encounter the following error message:

Chessifier.app is corrupted and cannot be opened.
Apple could not verify “Chessifier” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.

Cause of error

Since the application needs an official signature to avoid the pop-up “app is damaged” prompt after installation, but the official signature fee is expensive ($99 per year), which is unaffordable for open source projects. Therefore, it is necessary to manually bypass the signature to use Chessifier normally.

Solution

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Privacy & Security in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)
Go to Security, then click Open.
Click Open Anyway.

This button is available for about an hour after you try to open the app.
Enter your login password, then click OK.

Linux

Only supports use in X11 environment

Ubuntu, Debain series

Installation

Go to Download page to download the deb file, and then execute the following command:

# Install dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libgtk-3-dev

sudo dpkg -i chessifier.deb

Update

Go to Download Page to download the latest deb file
Terminal window
```
sudo dpkg -i chessifier.deb
```
Uninstall
Terminal window
```
sudo apt-get purge chessifier
```

ArchLinux, Manjaro series

Install
Terminal window
```
yay -S chessifier-bin
```
Update
Terminal window
```
yay -Syyu
```
Uninstall
Terminal window
```
sudo pacman -Rcns chessifier-bin
```

Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora series

Go to Download Page to download rpm file, then execute the following command:

Installation

# Install dependencies
sudo dnf check-update
sudo dnf install webkit2gtk4.0-devel libappindicator-gtk3-devel

rpm -ivh chessifier.rpm

Update

Go to Download Page to download the new version of rpm file
Terminal window
```
rpm -Uvh chessifier.rpm
```
Uninstall
Terminal window
```
rpm -ev chessifier
```

Other distributions

Installation

Go to Download Page to download the Appimage file, then execute the following command:
Terminal window
```
chmod +x chessifier.AppImage
./chessifier.AppImage
```

Uninstall

rm -r /opt/chessifier
rm /usr/share/applications/Chessifier.desktop