---
title: 'Install Zork: The Great Underground Empire on Ubuntu using the Snap Store
  | Snapcraft'
description: 'Get the latest version of Zork: The Great Underground Empire for on
  Ubuntu - Zork is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. One of the earliest
  interactive fiction computer games'
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/zork/ubuntu
---

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# Install Zork: The Great Underground Empire on **Ubuntu**

# Zork: The Great Underground Empire (zork)

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#### Zork is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. One of the earliest interactive fiction computer games

Zork is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortal man. Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors contained within.

In Zork, the intrepid explorer delves into the forgotten secrets of a lost labyrinth deep in the bowels of the earth, searching for vast treasures long hidden from prying eyes, treasures guarded by fearsome monsters and diabolical traps!

Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written between 1977 and 1979 using the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer. The authors—Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling—were members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group.

This is an unofficial snap build from the source code hosted in <https://github.com/devshane/zork>

Just install it and run from the command line:

`snap run zork`

### Package name

* zork

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### License

* unset

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### Last updated

* 20 May 2020 - latest/stable
* 3 March 2021 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [github.com/devshane/zork](https://github.com/devshane/zork "https://github.com/devshane/zork")

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### Contact

* [alejandro.vera@gmail.com](mailto:alejandro.vera@gmail.com "mailto:alejandro.vera@gmail.com")

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## Enable snaps on Ubuntu and install Zork: The Great Underground Empire

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 [Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)](https://www.ubuntu.com/) or later, including [Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)](https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features) and [Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.

For versions of Ubuntu between [14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes) and [15.10 (Wily Werewolf)](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include *snap* by default, *snap* can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for *snapd*.

Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Zork: The Great Underground Empire

To install Zork: The Great Underground Empire, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install zork
```

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