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title: Install Vector Race on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of Vector Race for Linux - The pencil-and-graph-paper
  racing game, with a circuit designer
url: https://snapcraft.io/vector-race
---

# Vector Race

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latest/stable 1.0.0

Install latest/stable of Vector Race

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install vector-race
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* vector-race

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### License

* MIT

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### Last updated

* 7 August 2026 - latest/stable

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### 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")

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### Contact

* [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues")

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### Source code

* [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues](https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues "https://github.com/carlosbravoa/vector-race/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/vector-race#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/vector-race#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/vector-race#tab-security)

#### 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.

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## Install Vector Race on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/vector-race/ubuntu)