Why can't I put Stockfish in SCID? I'm installing stockfish to be used on SCID. I followed these two tutorials, using Stockfish from the Stockfish website rather than from git.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/scid--stockfish
http://support.stockfishchess.org/kb/advanced-topics/compiling-stockfish-on-linux


I downloaded the engine binaries for Stockfish7 for Linux from

https://stockfishchess.org/download/


I read that you need to compile it first so I compiled the Stockfish engine with sudo apt-get install git g++. Tested it with make profile-build ARCH=x86-32 then I went to add the engine in SCID, with these settings:

name: stockfish
command: stockfish
directory: /home/user/Desktop/stockfish-7-linux/Linux/src/.stockfish
UCI on


But then it tells me that it is unable to start the program: stockfish.

That error is the default response for any error. If I typed in folders that don't exist and a file that doesn't exist, it gives that error too. What am I doing wrong?
In the line:

name:stockfish command: stockfish directory: /home/user/Desktop/stockfish-7-linux/Linux/src/.stockfish UCI on

Are you sure your exe file is called ".stockfish" and not only just "stockfish". Seems odd that you have a hidden exe file (even that it is possible)