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nstinus

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Registered: 2015-12-31

Posts: 2

Vivado installation

Hi all,

I am having trouble running a fresh install of Xilinx's Vivado SDK.

As mentioned in these two posts, I modified xsetup to run "uname -m" instead of "uname -i" but I am then blocked at another error:

% sudo ./xsetup --batch Install --agree XilinxEULA,3rdPartyEULA,WebTalkTerms -e "Vivado HL Design Edition" -x
Running in batch mode...
Copyright (c) 1986-2015 Xilinx, Inc.  All rights reserved.

DEBUG: Checking to see if IDATA_LOCATION_FROM_USER is set.
DEBUG: IDATA_LOCATION_FROM_USER is set to /home/nicolas/Downloads/Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2015.4.1_1212_1/data/udata.dat
DEBUG: idata file found, /home/nicolas/Downloads/Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2015.4.1_1212_1/data/udata.dat
DEBUG: Loaded the idata file: /home/nicolas/Downloads/Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2015.4.1_1212_1/data/udata.dat in: <1 minute
DEBUG: This is a fresh installation, no installation data file found.
DEBUG: Log file location: /root/.Xilinx/xinstall/xinstall_1451526290663.logINFO : Log file location - /root/.Xilinx/xinstall/xinstall_1451526290663.log
DEBUG: Memory usage -- Used memory: 6075 MB. Total memory: 7889 MB
Recent cpu usage for system: 18%
DEBUG: This is an Update installation.
DEBUG: Uninstall reg: /root/.Xilinx/registry/installedSW.xml
ERROR: Could not perform an Update, could not find details about the existing installation.

Thanks for your help!

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Please disregard this message. I am an idiot and tried to run the Update package...
I am new to this forum and hoped to delete this message but could not find how to do it...

Last edited by nstinus (2015-12-31 02:40:03)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: Vivado installation

I am new to this forum and hoped to delete this message but could not find how to do it...

There is no way to delete a forum post, for the simple reason that it would be egoistic (read this section). Rather than deleting something you've solved on your own, you state what was the problem and post the solution, and others may profit from it (no matter how "stupid" it may seem to you).

As you have done so, there is no issue, and I welcome you warmly on the Arch Linux forums

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nstinus

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Registered: 2015-12-31

Posts: 2

Re: Vivado installation

I went with the right package this time but ran into a fresh issue.
Install runs smoothly until the "Post-install tasks" where it hangs indefinitely.
It looks like it tries to run the vivado executable which fails because of a missing shared lib:

2016-01-01 11:56:18,644 DEBUG: p.p:? - Executing script Generating installed device list: /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2015.4/bin/vivado [-nolog, -nojournal, -mode, batch, -source, /opt/Xilinx/.xinstall/Vivado_2015.4/scripts/xlpartinfo.tcl, -tclargs, /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2015.4/data/parts/installed_devices.txt]
2016-01-01 11:57:39,586 DEBUG: p.p:? - Unable to run GenerateDevListFileLin, exit code: 130, stdout: , stderr: application-specific initialization failed: couldn't load file "librdi_commontasks.so": libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failure msg:
 application-specific initialization failed: couldn't load file "librdi_commontasks.so": libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That error also occurs when I run the vivado_hls executable myself as well.
I tried to link libncurses.so present on my system (6.0-4) to the one this guy is looking for to no avail (size is different).

Should I try to rebuild the lib myself or should I try to get my hands on the one present on a system they support (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)?
Any idea?

If that ever works, I think another issue will show up.
The licensing process seems to work by looking at the host mac address under the ethX interfaces. As described in the wiki, I'll need to alter systemd's interface naming scheme.
That is not something I am very fond of. Could it work to create a fake interface with a spoofed mac address?

# ip link add link enp0sXX name eth0 type dummy
# ip link set eth0 address <enp0sXX_mac>

Thanks for your help!

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: Vivado installation

For libncurses 5, there is one in the AUR.

For the interface thing, no idea

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