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My aunt needs a new laptop and I'm planning to buy one for her and set it up with Xubuntu. She has been using Windows 7 so far, mostly for internet and office work. However, she has developed a certain... addiction to the stock Windows 7 Solitaire game.

When I set up her new computer, I want to install a Solitaire game for her that is as similar as possible to the Windows 7 game. Unfortunately I have never played Solitaire before and do not even have a computer at hand to compare the games.

Does someone have an idea of which game I could install for her out of the Ubuntu Software Center? (I don't want to add potentially unsafe PPAs) It should just be really simple and not have too many options and game modes, because that might even confuse her.

Thank you in advance and kind regards!

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  • Set up wine and run the stock Win7 game
    – Daniel
    Sep 17, 2015 at 16:34

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Try Aisleriot. It works pretty much the same as Microsoft Solitaire and is available in Ubuntu Software Center.

Install via the software center

You can install it via command line too :

sudo apt-get install aisleriot 

aisleriot

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    Don't forget, if you do this, to make sure Aisleriot is doing the right solitaire game. It supports a great many different games, each with their own spreads and rules,and at one point at least, the default was not Klondike, which is what the Windows game is.
    – Darael
    Nov 20, 2015 at 10:15
  • As far as I know, Aisleriot should be preinstalled on a default fresh Ubuntu installation. Not sure about Xubuntu though...
    – Byte Commander
    May 12, 2016 at 8:16
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    This is not the same. You can't use the right-click shortcuts like in Windows.
    – Delorean
    Aug 4, 2017 at 19:38
  • You can also run Aisleriot via the command line: $ /usr/games/sol Feb 7, 2019 at 11:21
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Another one is ace-of-penguins. You can install it by typing

sudo apt-get install ace-of-penguins

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As @hg8 suggested Aisleriot is good.

You can also install kpat.

Open terminal and run the command:

sudo apt-get install kpat
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  • Is this app only available for KDE desktop (i.e. Kubuntu), or does it run on e.g. Unity and XFCE as well?
    – Byte Commander
    May 12, 2016 at 8:15
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    @ByteCommander It will run on any desktop with the required Qt libraries installed (and a few KDE-runtime libraries)
    – user423626
    Mar 22, 2017 at 7:06

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