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Reply #12 - 02/02/12 at 20:40:55
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Gerardo wrote on 01/28/12 at 00:35:01:

I use regurarly Scid under Linux, installing it both from the repository and from source.


I take it you are using *buntu's repository (shared with Mint etc.)?  Scid is not available for PCLinuxOS (which I prefer) so - since I needed to go outside the repo anyway - I looked for other database programs besides Scid. The Scid vs PC program mentioned above does look to be an improvement.  Smiley
  
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MarkG wrote on 01/28/12 at 01:23:19:
The best Linux database right now is the scid fork scid-vs-pc by Steven Atkinson and available at http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net

It is actively developed and has significant usability enhancements over vanilla scid.


I installed this program and like it very much. Does all the stuff Scid did (does?), plus.

For those interested, I also installed the Windows version using Wine to see if that would work as well, and it does, just fine.
  
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Reply #10 - 02/02/12 at 10:45:25
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here's the program which opens cb files: 
http://scidb.sourceforge.net/
  
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Reply #9 - 02/02/12 at 10:40:55
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I made a mistake. Was thinking of another program - not sure which - I'd talked about it with Marchovich a few months ago and it was in alpha at that time.
  
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Reply #8 - 02/02/12 at 00:03:36
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Jesse Gersenson wrote on 02/01/12 at 09:55:10:
I used chessdb and found it lacking features and useless - except it can open chessbase files.

Can it? I don't think so, or at least not my version.
  
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I used chessdb and found it lacking features and useless - except it can open chessbase files.
  
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Reply #6 - 01/28/12 at 21:25:28
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I should probably look into the scid-vs-pc thing as I still use a old Scid 3.6 build I compile against an old version of tk to *not* get anti-aliased fonts. (new versions of "official" scid are terribly buggy and I prefer the scid UI so mimicing chessbase doesn't attract me).

In the meantime, I recently managed to get ChessBase 9 working flawlessly in wine (including the media videos) by adding overrides for gdiplus.dll and comctl32.dll in the wine configuration dialog. "winetricks ie6 wmp9" was needed for the CBFT.  This means I can get rid of the virtualbox image of windows I was keeping around for this purpose, so I'm happy at least  Smiley
  
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Reply #5 - 01/28/12 at 02:10:27
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Aha! That is useful. Thank you!
  
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Reply #4 - 01/28/12 at 01:23:19
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The best Linux database right now is the scid fork scid-vs-pc by Steven Atkinson and available at http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net

It is actively developed and has significant usability enhancements over vanilla scid.
  
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Reply #3 - 01/28/12 at 00:35:01
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Arnaudov wrote on 01/27/12 at 16:04:15:
does anyone have any experience with ChessDB, whether you use Windows, Linux or any other operating system?


I use regurarly Scid under Linux, installing it both from the repository and from source.
  
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Re: Linux and ChessDB?
Reply #2 - 01/27/12 at 16:18:58
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Well I think I did for a bit before reverting to a later build of scid. But never used hard/intensively enough to pick out meaningful differences that might commend one over the other.

They both work quite well of course.
  
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Reply #1 - 01/27/12 at 16:04:15
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Huh

Okay then, perhaps there is no one using Linux and ChessDB.  Let me ask this then: does anyone have any experience with ChessDB, whether you use Windows, Linux or any other operating system?
  
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Linux and ChessDB?
01/26/12 at 01:03:36
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Any ChessPub Linux forum members have experience installing and using ChessDB (based on Scid)?
  
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