Install latest/stable of cubic

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

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sudo snap install cubic

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Details for cubic

License

  • GPL-2.0-only

Last updated

  • 8 December 2025 - latest/stable
  • 18 December 2025 - latest/edge

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Cubic is a lightweight command line manager for virtual machines.

Cubic is a lightweight command line manager for virtual machines with focus on simplicity and security.

It has a daemon-less and rootless design. All Cubic virtual machines run unprivileged in the user context. Cubic is built on top of QEMU, KVM and cloud-init.


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