>> It installed OK though, it also installed gnuchess as a dependancy.
I think dependency on a Chess engine is good, as XBoard by default tries to start with one. Debian, however, refuses to include such a dependence, because XBoard can also be used without engine, in ICS or game-viewer mode. Apparrently other distros are more realistic in this respect. It seems a bit strange to have a dependency on gnuchess, though, when in reality the dependency is on fairymax. I should add that the latest versions of xboard are much less dependent on the engine than they used to be: it is no longer a fatal error when the default engine refuses to start. It still prints the error popup, but then simply continues running in -ncp mode. The user can then load another engine he does have from the menu, if he wants. (This, btw, fixes one of the feature-request 'bugs' in the bug-xboard list.)
