--- title: Install Vector Race on Kubuntu using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Vector Race for on Kubuntu - The pencil-and-graph-paper racing game, with a circuit designer url: https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/kubuntu --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Vector Race on **Kubuntu** # Vector Race [Carlos Bravo (carlos-bravo)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/carlos-bravo "View all snaps from Carlos Bravo (carlos-bravo)") * [Carlos Bravo (carlos-bravo)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/carlos-bravo "View all snaps from Carlos Bravo (carlos-bravo)") * [Games](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=games) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/kubuntu#install) #### The pencil-and-graph-paper racing game, with a circuit designer The racing game people play on squared paper, built on SDL2. Your car has a velocity: every turn it moves by that velocity, and before it moves you may adjust each component by one cell — no more. The straight line it sweeps has to stay on the road. That is the whole game, and it is all about carrying speed into a corner you can still get out of. Clip a wall and the car stops on the last piece of road it reached, loses all of its speed AND its next turn, and leaves a scorch mark in your colour. That last part matters: without it the barrier is just a free handbrake. Zero crashes is a perfect run, and the game says so. Three ways to play: * Time Trial — one car, ranked on fewest moves, then fewest crashes, then the clock. Your best run is saved per circuit and replayed as a ghost line to race against. * 2 Players — hotseat, alternating turns. Cars block each other, but only where it counts: you may sweep past the square your opponent is sitting on and collide only if you would come to rest on it. * vs CPU — the same, against a computer driver at Easy, Medium or Hard. It plays your nine moves, searched a few turns deep, steering by a distance field measured through the corridor — so it brakes for corners instead of aiming at the apex wall. Five circuits across five map themes — mown grass, an island in a turquoise sea, red desert, snow over a frozen lake, and basalt with lava running through it — drawn as solid terrain with kerbed roads and scattered scenery. There is an in-game circuit designer too: shape the racing line by dragging control points and the road follows at the width you choose, with a brush for touch-ups and forty levels of undo. It checks as you draw and will not hand the game a circuit it cannot race. Plays entirely with the mouse or entirely with the keyboard. No image, font or audio assets ship — every shape and every sound is generated at runtime. ### Package name * vector-race --- ### License * MIT --- ### Last updated * 7 August 2026 - latest/stable --- ### Websites * [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race") * [snapcraft.io](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/carlos-bravo "https://snapcraft.io/publisher/carlos-bravo") --- ### Contact * [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues") --- ### Source code * [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race") --- ### Report a bug * [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/kubuntu#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Kubuntu and install Vector Race Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd If you’re running [Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://kubuntu.org/) or later, including [Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu) and [Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go. Versions of Kubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-14-04-lts) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-15-10) don’t include *snap* by default, but *snap* can be installed from the command line as follows: ``` sudo apt update sudo apt install snapd ``` ### Install Vector Race To install Vector Race, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install vector-race ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit [snapcraft.io](https://snapcraft.io/) now. 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