Xilinx ISE webpack in Ubuntu?

Hello, I am kind of new to running linux on my own machine at home and I 
  have chosen to use Ubuntu.
I would like to run Xilinx ISE webpack if possible.
On my first attempt I couldn't get the windows version to install in 
Wine, but I'd rather run it natively in linux if possible anyway.

I found some page online in french that actually came out somewhat 
readable when translated to English, describing how to install version 
8.1i in Ubuntu 6.06 (which is what I'm using). I tried that, but only 
got checksum errors when I tried to run the .sh file.
Any ideas?
Should I switch to CentOS instead or something?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Battazzo wrote:
> Hello, I am kind of new to running linux on my own machine at home and I 
>  have chosen to use Ubuntu.
> I would like to run Xilinx ISE webpack if possible.
> On my first attempt I couldn't get the windows version to install in 
> Wine, but I'd rather run it natively in linux if possible anyway.
> 
> I found some page online in french that actually came out somewhat 
> readable when translated to English, describing how to install version 
> 8.1i in Ubuntu 6.06 (which is what I'm using). I tried that, but only 
> got checksum errors when I tried to run the .sh file.
> Any ideas?
> Should I switch to CentOS instead or something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve

UPDATE-- it seems whenever I download any of these script files straight 
from the Xilinx website, I get these checksum errors for some reason. I 
downloaded a "web install" script from some other place that had it 
archived, and it at least opened up ok.
So I'm going to try the getting the single file downfload from this 
server.. as painfully slow as it is.
Any other input on what else I might try is appreciated, though.

Thanks,

Steve

On Feb 26, 3:53 am, Steve Battazzo <thesteveman_i...@yahoo.co.jp>
wrote:
> Steve Battazzo wrote:
> > Hello, I am kind of new to running linux on my own machine at home and I
> >  have chosen to use Ubuntu.
> > I would like to run Xilinx ISE webpack if possible.
> > On my first attempt I couldn't get the windows version to install in
> > Wine, but I'd rather run it natively in linux if possible anyway.
>
> > I found some page online in french that actually came out somewhat
> > readable when translated to English, describing how to install version
> > 8.1i in Ubuntu 6.06 (which is what I'm using). I tried that, but only
> > got checksum errors when I tried to run the .sh file.
> > Any ideas?
> > Should I switch to CentOS instead or something?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Steve
>
> UPDATE-- it seems whenever I download any of these script files straight
> from the Xilinx website, I get these checksum errors for some reason. I
> downloaded a "web install" script from some other place that had it
> archived, and it at least opened up ok.
> So I'm going to try the getting the single file downfload from this
> server.. as painfully slow as it is.
> Any other input on what else I might try is appreciated, though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve


Steve, I've had nothing but success with the single-file download. On
each iteration, the xilinx linux support for webpack seems to get
better and better. The only issues I've had as of late are related to
running the 32-bit webpack on amd64 hardware (it works, I just have to
edit a single script file.)

If you're having trouble downloading webpack in single-file format, I
might suggest trying wget. When you get the list of options of files
to download, copy the url and from the command-line run:

$ wget http://urlforwebpack

at 1.4 GB i've found this to be a more robust way of downloading.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, and good luck!
   ...Eric

jonas@mit.edu wrote:
> On Feb 26, 3:53 am, Steve Battazzo <thesteveman_i...@yahoo.co.jp>
> wrote:
>> Steve Battazzo wrote:
>>> Hello, I am kind of new to running linux on my own machine at home and I
>>>  have chosen to use Ubuntu.
>>> I would like to run Xilinx ISE webpack if possible.
>>> On my first attempt I couldn't get the windows version to install in
>>> Wine, but I'd rather run it natively in linux if possible anyway.
>>> I found some page online in french that actually came out somewhat
>>> readable when translated to English, describing how to install version
>>> 8.1i in Ubuntu 6.06 (which is what I'm using). I tried that, but only
>>> got checksum errors when I tried to run the .sh file.
>>> Any ideas?
>>> Should I switch to CentOS instead or something?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>> UPDATE-- it seems whenever I download any of these script files straight
>> from the Xilinx website, I get these checksum errors for some reason. I
>> downloaded a "web install" script from some other place that had it
>> archived, and it at least opened up ok.
>> So I'm going to try the getting the single file downfload from this
>> server.. as painfully slow as it is.
>> Any other input on what else I might try is appreciated, though.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
> 
> 
> Steve, I've had nothing but success with the single-file download. On
> each iteration, the xilinx linux support for webpack seems to get
> better and better. The only issues I've had as of late are related to
> running the 32-bit webpack on amd64 hardware (it works, I just have to
> edit a single script file.)
> 
> If you're having trouble downloading webpack in single-file format, I
> might suggest trying wget. When you get the list of options of files
> to download, copy the url and from the command-line run:
> 
> $ wget http://urlforwebpack
> 
> at 1.4 GB i've found this to be a more robust way of downloading.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any other questions, and good luck!
>    ...Eric
> 

Thanks, Eric.

Directly from the Xilinx website, I've been getting issues with these, 
whether it's the single file download or the web install. 9.2i installer 
gave me a bus error and with the older versions the script files gave me 
some checksum errors as I said before  (wget or otherwise).
I found some old mirror site http://www.tx-g.net.hu/files/xilinx that 
had the files for 8.2i archived. I tried the WebInstall version from 
there (as it's a smaller file) and it actually opened, but the install 
didn't succeed.
This led me to suspect that the single file install from this mirror 
would probably work ok for me. It is a slow server and took over 3 hours 
to downoad (against 20 minutes straight from Xilinx) but the install 
worked!

I do have an AMD64 Athlon processor, so I may be interested in hearing 
your script file edit.
Is it the settings.sh, Display:= 0 thing that I've been seeing around, 
or something else?

Thanks,

Steve

On 26 f=E9v, 08:47, Steve Battazzo <thesteveman_i...@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> I found some page online in french that actually came out somewhat
> readable when translated to English, describing how to install version
> 8.1i in Ubuntu 6.06 (which is what I'm using).

I wrote a french article on this topic, so if the mentionned page is
this one :
"Installation Xilinx Webpack 8.1i sur linux (ubuntu 6.06 "dapper
drake")"
http://harded.free.fr/site/?p=3D55

Then I am probably the one to blame for the choice of french language
instead of common english :) I don't know how the "automatic"
translated version is, but if you have specific questions I can write
some "non automatic" human explanations :)


> I tried that, but only
> got checksum errors when I tried to run the .sh file.
> Any ideas?

This is maybe now solved, and you have probably take care of that...
but just in case...
Did you check you really have enough free disk space for the
downloaded file ? I got the same kind of error because my disk
partition get full before the end of the download.

Hope this help.

Luzerne GANHIR

>
> Directly from the Xilinx website, I've been getting issues with these,
> whether it's the single file download or the web install. 9.2i installer
> gave me a bus error and with the older versions the script files gave me
> some checksum errors as I said before  (wget or otherwise).
> I found some old mirror sitehttp://www.tx-g.net.hu/files/xilinxthat
> had the files for 8.2i archived. I tried the WebInstall version from
> there (as it's a smaller file) and it actually opened, but the install
> didn't succeed.
> This led me to suspect that the single file install from this mirror
> would probably work ok for me. It is a slow server and took over 3 hours
> to downoad (against 20 minutes straight from Xilinx) but the install
> worked!
>
> I do have an AMD64 Athlon processor, so I may be interested in hearing
> your script file edit.
> Is it the settings.sh, Display:= 0 thing that I've been seeing around,
> or something else?
>

First, and I know this sounds dumb, but I'd suggest booting into
memtest86 (ubuntu ships it by default as one of your boot options) and
checking your ram. Every time I've had strange download problems it's
ended up being a ram problem -- and this has happened three times over
the past few years.

I found that I had to edit the top of settings.sh to identify my
platform as an x86 (and not x86-64) linux.

PLATFORM=lin



Why xilinx doesn't also release 64-bit webpack, I'm not sure :) But
their linux support has been so nice that I'm not complaining. Maybe
someday they'll actually package rpms or debs for us!

I'm curious, what do you use for HDL sim under linux?

     ...Eric

Steve, hello,

> So I'm going to try the getting the single file downfload from this
> server.. as painfully slow as it is.
> Any other input on what else I might try is appreciated, though.

I used to run ISE 8.2.0.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 without serious trouble  for
some time.
The only thing which was important to get the simulator going was:

  $ cd Xilinx/gnu/gcc/3.2.3/lin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin
  $ mv ld ld.bak
  $ ln -s /usr/bin/ld ld

I now run ISE 9.1i on Ubuntu Feisty (7.04 - herd4). No problems at all
-- and no
trickery (you don't have to replace the linker as done for 8.2.*) But
you have
to install libc-dev.

  j,

Luzerne wrote:
> On 26 f&#4294967295;v, 08:47, Steve Battazzo <thesteveman_i...@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> I found some page online in french that actually came out somewhat
>> readable when translated to English, describing how to install version
>> 8.1i in Ubuntu 6.06 (which is what I'm using).
> 
> I wrote a french article on this topic, so if the mentionned page is
> this one :
> "Installation Xilinx Webpack 8.1i sur linux (ubuntu 6.06 "dapper
> drake")"
> http://harded.free.fr/site/?p=55
> 
> Then I am probably the one to blame for the choice of french language
> instead of common english :) I don't know how the "automatic"
> translated version is, but if you have specific questions I can write
> some "non automatic" human explanations :)
> 
> 
>> I tried that, but only
>> got checksum errors when I tried to run the .sh file.
>> Any ideas?
> 
> This is maybe now solved, and you have probably take care of that...
> but just in case...
> Did you check you really have enough free disk space for the
> downloaded file ? I got the same kind of error because my disk
> partition get full before the end of the download.
> 
> Hope this help.
> 
> Luzerne GANHIR
> 
Thanks, I did manage to get it working though I still don't know why the 
solution I chose ended up working....
Can't be a disk space issue, I have an 80 gig hard drive and only about 
10 gigs of space is occupied at the moment.

jonas@mit.edu wrote:
>> Directly from the Xilinx website, I've been getting issues with these,
>> whether it's the single file download or the web install. 9.2i installer
>> gave me a bus error and with the older versions the script files gave me
>> some checksum errors as I said before  (wget or otherwise).
>> I found some old mirror sitehttp://www.tx-g.net.hu/files/xilinxthat
>> had the files for 8.2i archived. I tried the WebInstall version from
>> there (as it's a smaller file) and it actually opened, but the install
>> didn't succeed.
>> This led me to suspect that the single file install from this mirror
>> would probably work ok for me. It is a slow server and took over 3 hours
>> to downoad (against 20 minutes straight from Xilinx) but the install
>> worked!
>>
>> I do have an AMD64 Athlon processor, so I may be interested in hearing
>> your script file edit.
>> Is it the settings.sh, Display:= 0 thing that I've been seeing around,
>> or something else?
>>
> 
> First, and I know this sounds dumb, but I'd suggest booting into
> memtest86 (ubuntu ships it by default as one of your boot options) and
> checking your ram. Every time I've had strange download problems it's
> ended up being a ram problem -- and this has happened three times over
> the past few years.
> 
> I found that I had to edit the top of settings.sh to identify my
> platform as an x86 (and not x86-64) linux.
> 
> PLATFORM=lin
> 
> 
> 
> Why xilinx doesn't also release 64-bit webpack, I'm not sure :) But
> their linux support has been so nice that I'm not complaining. Maybe
> someday they'll actually package rpms or debs for us!
> 
> I'm curious, what do you use for HDL sim under linux?
> 
>      ...Eric
> 

What do I use for HDL sim? Well, I don't know yet. I'm a beginner, just 
trying to get some software set up so I can start learning. For now I 
will just use the ISE webpack for everything until I get to a point 
where I see a need for anything else.
There are both windows and linux machines in the lab that I can use, so 
if I were to do this just in the lab I could take my pick.. but I'd like 
to play around with it at home for a bit as well and I just switched to 
linux, trying to put my windows machine to rest. And in the lab, for 
that matter, I'd like to stay off the windows machine because that 
particular one sucks... I've been using it for microcontroller and 
serial debugging, but I have almost reached the point where I can move 
those things over to linux too :)

As for the ram test.. I'm running that right now and everything seems to 
be checking out. This is a new computer, I just put it together less 
than a week ago, so I'm still working out the kinks but there don't seem 
to be any big hardware issues.

Thanks again for your help!

Steve

On 2007-03-02, Steve Battazzo <thesteveman_ice9@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared 
> object file: no such file or directory
>
> Do I need to find this file and get it into the appropriate directory, 
> or is it there and I just need to point the program to it?

libXm is not included so you have to find it in some way. If you didn't
already know it, libXm is the Motif library.

/Andreas