How to have a Rubik's cube on Linux

El Rubik's Cube, that complex riddle or puzzle that makes many people lose sleep while others find it an interesting challenge, in our repos we have several options to 'play' with it without having to get up from the desk 😀

For KDE users we have Kubrick, it is simply the rubik's cube for kde (Qt libraries) and obviously has a lot of options (like all Qt apps) 😀

Kubrick:

sudo apt-get install kubrick

If you are not a KDE user but prefer GTK libraries (Cinnamon, Gnome, Unity, Xfce, etc) you have a Rubik's cube for your desk with gnubik:

gnubik:

sudo apt-get install gnubik

Although it does not have as many options as the previous one and at least it works noticeably slower on my laptop, my graphics chipset is different from yours so ... try it if you don't use KDE, it's not bad at all 😉

By the way, in the screenshot I show only one view, but other views (left, right, top and bottom) can be added with just two clicks.

In case neither of these two options convinces you, you will always have pybik. A Rubik's cube made in Python with very few dependencies:

Pybik:

sudo apt-get install pybik

By the way, it has several curious options, one of them is the possibility of putting photos instead of colors as you can see above.

What is cool? 😀

Anyway, obviously it is not the same as having a bucket in your hands but it is an alternative 🙂

regards


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  1.   lithos523 said

    I knew gnubik, but not the other two options you indicate. Linux is definitely a world of options.

    But in all of them I lack an option: to teach me how to solve it!

    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      hahahahaha I have no idea how to solve it LOL !!
      My girlfriend has managed to make 2 complete faces / caps of the cube, but she has 2 left to complete it and… that's where it gets

      1.    giskard said

        There are a couple of solution methods. Search Google and you get. My maximum solution time was 2 minutes and 37 seconds. Once you know a method, the rest is sewing and singing. You solve a cover and make sure that the edges of it coincide with the centers of the sides (that's easy and does not require a method) Then, with a method you complete the 5 side faces in an almost iterative way. Now you use another one that completes the cover opposite to where you started and voila! You have your cube armed. Google it. After you learn it, it will be the life of the parties ... geeks, which in my case is going well because that is what all my friends are 😉

      2.    Leandro said

        Hahaha, it's easy, I love it, my record is 38s 59ms, I still need to improve a lot, but, with practice it is achieved: 3

    2.    Leonardo said

      Yes of course ... A world of options. So many options that there is no room for MS Office, Autocad, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Sony Vegas Pro, Illustrator, 3Ds Max Studio, iTunes.
      Although it hurts, that is the sad reality of linux.

      1.    Israel said

        Not only Linux but also Mac. Obviously no system can satisfy the needs of each user 100%. And it is not that it hurts but it is tiring, nobody forces anyone to use "X" Operating System or at least that is what I think. Although there are times that for work we have to use one system or another but I do not think it is a problem.

      2.    rock and roll said

        "They don't leave space" ... do you know what you're talking about? Do you have any familiar concepts like "proprietary licenses", "closed code", among others? Also, do you think that programs like MS Office or the lousy Itunes are desirable for everyone, since in GNU / Linux there are such good alternatives Libreoffice or Clementine, to name a few of the many others?
        I recommend you inform yourself a little before expressing opinions so lacking in precision.
        By the way, I don't know if you know, but the device you wrote from uses Linux (to a large extent at least) in its operating system.

        1.    rock and roll said

          * among others
          * alternatives as good as

      3.    eliotime3000 said

        Meh ...
        You are looking behind the mountain. What you lack is that their equivalents in free software that are really good are: Libreoffice, Blender, Krita (or GIMP), Bluefish, QT designer + GNU Emacs, Jashaka, Inkscape, Amarok ...

        Although it hurts, those are the star programs that free software has, and you can even make them quite similar to their proprietary equivalents (with prior knowledge of C ++ programming languages, of course).

  2.   manolox said

    There are at least two others:

    xmrubik (it's in motif it's in the xmpuzzles puzzle pack)

    And another called Rubix. It usually comes in puppy distributions. This one is done in gtk1 if I remember correctly.

  3.   carriage said

    The one I like the most is the Kubrick, now it doesn't open xDD but if I remember correctly I had an option for cubes up to 5x5x5. The downside of this is that it is infinitely slower than a physical cube xDD

    The ones I like the most from KDE are Palapeli, Kubrick, Kollision and KMahjongg.

  4.   st0rmt4il said

    Dalee! .. I already have mineO: D!

  5.   kuk said

    what i was looking for thanks !!!!