Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 under wine ?

Pavel Troller · Post by **Pavel Troller** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:52 am

Hi!
I would like to buy this robotic set to my children (and eventually, to me,
too

). I would like to know, whether the programming software is usable
from Linux with wine (I doubt there is a native Linux support there). Does
anybody have an experience, either positive or negative ?
With regards, Pavel

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:01 am

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 09:52 +0100, Pavel Troller wrote:

Hi!
I would like to buy this robotic set to my children (and eventually, to me,
too ). I would like to know, whether the programming software is usable
from Linux with wine (I doubt there is a native Linux support there). Does
anybody have an experience, either positive or negative ?
With regards, Pavel

Wikipedia says Yes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEGO_Mindstorms using
Lestat https://csrg.inf.utfsm.cl/twiki4/bin/view/ACS/LesTat for native
Linux support, but it may not be what your children need because Lestat
is a support library that lets you write C++ programs to control Lego
NXT bricks.

Martin

petulda · Post by **petulda** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:33 pm

Hi,
I was not able to run it under Wine, but it works under VirtualBox. Just make sure you have the version with USB support, not the OS version!
Petr