Tux Typing (or tuxtype) is free software education game designed for kids to learn keyboard typing and English vocabularies by playing. As part of The Tux4Kids Project, Tux Typing is a sibling to Tux Math, a similar education game but for studying mathematics. All in all, let's start enjoying it!

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How To Install Tux Typing

1. Click Ubuntu menu button.

2. Find Terminal and run it. 

3. Type the following command lines then press Enter. You will need to type your password to proceed.

$ sudo snap install tuxtype 

4. Type this second command line then press Enter:

$ sudo snap connect tuxtype:alsa

5. Tux Typing is installed successfully. Done. 

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How To Run

1. Click Ubuntu menu button.

2. Find Tux Typing and run it.

3. Tux Typing runs. Done.

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How To Play

1. Run Tux Typing.

2. Tux Typing window will show. Select Fish Cascade option.

(Front page of Tux Typing)

3. Select a difficulty level. Here we pick Easy.

 (Difficulty level selection)

4. Select a lesson. Here we pick Animals. 

 (Lesson selection)

5. Game starts! Type every animal name coming down slowly as as fishes so Tux the penguin can eat them all and your score increases. However, if you missed one, Tux will lose one life. When Tux loses all his lives, you lose. Have fun!

6. You can try other options from 2, 3 and 4 to find more games. Done.

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Caveats and How To Remove

The installation above is done from Snapcraft in form of Snap package, not the traditional Debian DEB package. However, we noticed that the DEB installation introduces the same issue as Tux Math we have explained in the previous episode. If you want the traditional package instead of Snap, use this command line:

$ sudo apt-get install tuxtype

To uninstall the game, pick one of these commands: 

$ sudo snap remove tuxtyping
$ sudo apt-get remove tuxtype

Done. 

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About Tux Typing

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See Also

1. Tux Math, another excellent recommendation for educational gaming for kids.

2. List of Ubuntu Free Games, our catalog of recommended games available on Ubuntu genres including Edu, FPS, Puzzle, RPG, RTS, Strategy, Sim etc.

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References

1. What is free software? The definition by The GNU Project  

2. Tux 4 Kids - The Official Home of Tux Typing 

3. Tux 4 Kids - The Old Home Page at Debian Alioth (now defunct, archived). 

4. Tux Typing at Sourceforge the old download center / source code repository. 

5. Tux Typing at GitHub the new download center / source code repository.  

6. List of Free Software for Windows (DAPRUBAS, in Indonesian) by Teknoplasma 

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