GNU Gnubik

The GNUbik program is an interactive, graphical, single player puzzle. Yes, this is another implementation of the classic game like that invented by Erno Rubik. You have to manipulate the cube using the mouse. When each face shows only one colour, the game is solved.

GNU Gnubik is written in C and Guile. The latter allows you to extend the program using the Scheme language — a simple programming tool which even novice computer users can use. For example, you can use Scheme to write your own automated solving routines or to create patterns.

Screenshots

Gnubik is a graphical program. Look at some screenshots to see how it looks in action.

Features

Some features of Gnubik include:

Free Software. GNUbik is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.

Supports cubes of any size. 3 by 3 by 3 is the default.

It has a Gnome look and feel.

Custom colours. Choose any that are available to your system.

Instead of colours, you can also use images.

You can watch the cube solve itself. And you can write your own scripts and run them on the cube.

You can record and playback sequences of moves.

It's portable. GNUbik has been tested on many GNU/Linux operating systems. It has also been reported to work on other non Unix systems.

It's internationalised. GNUbik has been translated into non English languages.

Configurable animation speed.

Downloading Gnubik

Gnubik can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnubik/ (via HTTP) and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnubik/ (via FTP). It can also be found on the GNU mirrors; please use a mirror if possible.

Documentation

Using the program is very intuitive — You just point and click! Documentation therefore is somewhat redundant. However a manual is available online. You may also find more information about Gnubik by running info gnubik or man gnubik, or by looking at /usr/doc/gnubik/, /usr/local/doc/gnubik/, or similar directories on your system. A brief summary is available by running gnubik --help .

Mailing address

Gnubik has one email address: <bugs-gnubik@gnu.org>. It is used for questions and comments about all aspects of Gnubik. This includes development and enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.

Announcements about Gnubik, as with most other GNU software, are made on <info-gnu@gnu.org>.

To subscribe to this or any GNU mailing list, please send an empty mail with a Subject: header of just subscribe to the relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to the GNU announcement list, you would send mail to <info-gnu-request@gnu.org>. Or you can use the mailing list web interface.

Getting involved

Translating Gnubik Gnubik has already been translated to many languages, please see the Translation Project page for Gnubik. If you have a new translation or updates to the existing translations, please have the changes made in this repository. For more information, see the Translation Project. Maintainer Gnubik is currently maintained by John Darrington.

Licensing

Gnubik is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.