I would encourage you to just use CentOS/Redhat. You have to change various libraries in Ubuntu (to very old ones!) to make the 11 'flow work natively. I seem to recall perl and gcc both giving trouble, for example. At KAT, we do run Ubuntu, but the 'flow executes in a chroot RHEL environment to keep their old libraries and executables. I've been led to believe that this won't be necessary with the v13 'flow but I haven't actually got it running yet so can't vouch for that. And I don't recommend you start with 13 because you have to manually copy deprecated cores from v11 to make it work.
Many find Redhat annoying but if you're getting started, I advise you use rather bite the bullet and use it. You can always install it as a virtual machine initially if you don't want to disturb your primary OS. Also, don't install all the latest RHEL updates. Jason On 15 Feb 2012, at 09:40, Alec Rust wrote: > Hi Laura, here are instructions for setting up 12.4 labtools, the same > procedure will work for setting up the full version. > > Install Xilinx in /opt/Xilinx > • Download Xilinx 12.4 Labtools. This can be downloaded from > http://www.xilinx.com > • Untar (tar -xvf Xilinx_LabTools_12.4_M.81d.2.0.tar) and install by > running “sudo ./xsetup” in the Xilinx directory. > • Generate a webpack licence on the website, a lic file will be emailed > to you. During installation select the webpack licence and follow > instructions. > • To run Xilinx Impact type the following in a terminal (source runs a > pearl script that sets up the Xilinx paths): > source /opt/Xilinx/12.4/LabTools/settings64.sh > impact > > > Regards > Alec > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Laura Vertatschitsch <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi guys, first post. > > We are setting up a machine from scratch. The 2011 tutorials section seems > to indicate the all the machines were set up with Xilinx 11.5 on machines > running 64 bit Ubuntu. Are there instructions on how this set up was > achieved? Everything I read on the wiki seems to say that deviating from the > xilinx-blessed operating systems will result in bad news. We got everything > set up using the latest Ubuntu 11.10, Matlab 2009a, Xilinx 11.5, by following > the LINUX XPS page and introducing the simple case statement in bee_xps to > allow 11.5. We are getting some errors at the end of the compile of tutorial > 1 - but wanted to check if there was further documentation on the setup that > we could read first. > > Laura Vertatschitsch > Electrical Engineering > University of Washington >
