Installation via Flatpak
Installation:
flatpak install flathub org.kde.gcomprisLaunch:
flatpak run org.kde.gcompris
admin
GCompris tutorials for kids Linux
GCompris - a large selection of free educational games and activities for children aged 2 to 10 years.
GCompris includes more than 180 various educational games, activities, and exercises for children's development.
Educational and developmental games for children
The range of tutorials in GCompris is impressive. The following exercises and games are presented:
- basic computer literacy
- learning to type on a keyboard
- mouse training
- read
- spelling
- arithmetic
- basic physics
- experiences
- geography
- solar system
- exploring time and calendar
- logic games
- puzzles
- labyrinths
- puzzles
- tag
- Tower of Hanoi
- tanks
- games for memory development and training
- learning colors
- color mixing
- learning shapes
- music notation
- games to find paired cards
- search for paired cards when one of them is an arithmetic expression and the other is an answer
- animal studies
- animal sounds
- music
- music notation
- board games (chess, four in a row)
- number systems
- digital electronics
- and much more
Interface and design
Each developer has its own design.
Everything is done quite simply and without frills. Even in a sense it’s primitive. The design uses simple clipart.
Control by mouse.
Use in schools, student profiles
GCompris can be used for teaching children in schools, kindergartens or developmental groups.
The program provides an interface for creating classes and personal profiles for each student. For each student, statistics of his success are kept.
Students can be combined into groups.
System Requirements
GCompris has the following minimum system requirements:
- Processor: Pentium 3 500Mhz
- RAM: 512Mb
- No 3D acceleration required
Installation:
Installation via Snap
sudo snap install gcomprisInstallation on Ubuntu (LinuxMint)
sudo apt install gcomprisInstallation in ArchLinux (Manjaro)
sudo pacman -S gcompris-qtInstallation on Fedora
sudo dnf install gcomprisInstallation in openSuse
sudo zypper install gcomprisInstallation in Gentoo
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