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I recently installed a chess program called xboard. I tried to open it from the terminal and it gave me the following error.

dineshkumar@dineshkumar-desktop:~$ xboard 
xboard: no fonts match pattern -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 
Some fonts seem to be missing in your system, you should install either xfonts-100dpi or
xfonts-75dpi and then restart Xorg to get xboard running.
See http://bugs.debian.org/504077 and http://bugs.debian.org/562726 for more information.

What does this means and how do I rectify it and run xboard?

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Need some fonts.

sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi

Then restart xorg. Save your file and work before, my openbox get an error during restart lxdm.
Howto, see How to restart X Window Server from command line?

Or, just restart your computer.

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