BlueBrick for Linux

[3D LEGO]

Everyone,

Instead of letting this get buried inside the BlueBrick topic, I decided to create a new topic so that people could find this easily.

To run BlueBrick on Linux you will need mono, a cross-platform .NET development framework. Most distros I would assume ship with mono in their repositories and or the additional repositories.

But to get right to the point as I know you are all eager to fire-up BlueBrick to mock up your next big project. So without further adue, here is how to get mono installed and how to run BlueBrick.

BlueBrick running on my fedora 20 + KDE desktop installation.

1.a - For fedora: Note: I tested this with fedora 20 x86_64.

1. I am not sure they are needed but start with making sure you have the fedora RPM Fusion repositories enabled: Enable RPM Fusion on your system PS: They are a great addition!
   
2. Install mono:
   

   • sudo yum install -y mono-core mono-extras

     
     

[*]Proceed to section 2.

1.b - For ubuntu: Note: I do not possess the means at the moment to test this but if someone could verify this that would be great.

1. Install mono:
   

   • sudo apt-get install mono-complete

     
     

[*]Proceed to section 2.

1.c - For openSUSE: Note: I do not possess the means at the moment to test this but if someone could verify this that would be great.

1. Install mono:
   

   • sudo zypper install mono-complete

     
     

[*]Proceed to section 2.

1.d - For debian: Note: I do not possess the means at the moment to test this but if someone could verify this that would be great.

1. Install mono:
   

   • sudo apt-get install mono-complete

     
     

[*]Proceed to section 2.

2. For BlueBrick: Note: Once you are up in running, to my understanding these steps below should in theory be universal across distros.

1. Download the latest version of the BlueBrick software:
   
   • BlueBrick
     
   • Unzip archive to some desired destination.
     

[*]Run BlueBrick:

• Open terminal emulator of choice and enter the following command, feeding it the location to where you extracted the zip archive to:
  

• mono /Path to BlueBrick folder/BlueBrick.exe &

  
  

• For example:
  

• mono /home/username/Downloads/BlueBrick.1.7.1/BlueBrick.exe &

  
  

• For shortcut:
  

• mono ~/Downloads/BlueBrick.1.7.1/BlueBrick.exe &

  
  

1. 
   

Note

:

'&' denotes running as a background process to free up the terminal.

'~' is a shortcut to the current user's home directory.

And I apologize if these do not work in your distro as I have no idea how universal they are.

And an added bonus for KDE users:

3.a - For KDE Desktop:

1. Invoke the KDE Menu editor by right-clicking Kickoff icon > Select 'Edit Applications.'
   
2. Go to location you wish to place the BlueBrick shortcut icon in.
   
   • Example: Graphics
     

[*]With the desired folder selected, click on 'New Item'

• Under the general tab fill in the necessary information:
  
• Name:, Description:, Comment:, Command:
  
• Example:
  
  • Name: BlueBrick
    
  • Description: Display mockup tool
    
  • Comment: Tool for creating mockups of LEGO displays.
    
  • Command: mono ~/opt/BlueBrick.1.7.1/BlueBrick.exe
    
  • Note: There is not a readily-accessible icon for BlueBrick so unless you make one you will have to substitute another one.
    

  [*]Click save.

[*]Enjoy your newly created menu shortcut item.

Well that is all I have. Again, if you are able to verify one of the above, feel free to post it. Otherwise I will try to get around to testing them against live installs.

Happy BlueBrick'ing on Linux!

Your Fellow Studded-Penguin,

3D LEGO

Edited May 26, 2014 by 3D LEGO

[Alban Nanty]

Hello everyone

This topic may be a bit old, but maybe still usefull.

Also, now Bluebrick is distributed with a shell script install file for linux that creates a shortcut to launch BlueBrick on your desktop. I guess it should still work, but I'm not sure, since I don't have a linux installed on a computer right now. I'm interested by feedback from linux users, to see if it is still viable to run BlueBrick with mono, and if the install script is still useful, etc... or if most user run BlueBrick through wine.

Yours.

[Black Knight]

I use it with mono(1) directly. I had some issues with the install script, but I don't recall what exactly the problem was (not too mindboggingly obviously).

[Phil B]

I used to run Bluebrick directly through WINE, worked without issues.

Edited May 20, 2021 by Phil B