Installation and Licensing

[salgat1507]

The script installs everything fine, was able to successfully update to 11.3. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to run the actual program. Running the settings32.sh returns no prompt, and seemingly does nothing.

[davidch]

You need to source settings32.sh to setup your environment and then run "ise".

[zaxis]

I actually have this same problem. I don't think this topic has been solved yet so I will "reawaken" it by posting here

I am running Ubuntu 10. I do the following in the /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/ folder, where I installed it:

export DISPLAY=:0

source settings32.sh

./settings32.sh

ise

./settings32.sh yields these messages:

. /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/EDK/settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/EDK
. /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/ISE/settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/ISE
. /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/PlanAhead/settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/PlanAhead
. /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/common/settings32.sh /opt/Xilinx/12.3/ISE_DS/common

When I run "ise" it tells me that the command is not found and then suggests some packages that I could apt-get.

I can't find anything that explains what is wrong. I'd appreciate the help. Thanks!

[awillen]

Please post the output of

echo $PATH

 after you sourced the appropriate settings??.sh

[zaxis]

Sorry about the late reply. This has been a busy few days for me...

The output off echo $PATH gives me this:

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

Note that this is after I source and run the settings32.sh script. It doesn't look like anything xilinx specific has been added.

I did figure out how to run the programs, though! The programs reside in the folders [path to xilinx install containing the settings32.sh file]/IDE/bin/lin and [path to xilinx install containing the settings32.sh file]EDK/bin/lin.

Just change to those directories and run the scripts. For example, I would go to the ISE/bin/lin folder and type in ./ise to run the Project Navigator. For some reason, all the guides tell you to just type in "ise" as if it were a command. Maybe this has to do with the settings32.sh script not working properly.

Now if only I could get the license manager to show up...

[zaxis]

I found that too. It's in [xilinx installation directory]/common/bin/lin.

Then do this: ./xlcm. However in linux you can't use the Xilinx License Configuration Manager. You have to set one of XILINXD_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variables to the location of your license.

You can do this by setting an environmental variable normally in linux:

export XILINXD_LICENSE_FILE=place@asdf

for a floating license, for example.

Also, I think this might have to be done every time you restart the computer or xorg (the GUI). You can put this in a bash script called startise, though, and put that script in /usr/local/bin so that whenever you want to start ise, it'll source your settings variables, load the license file and then run ise.

If you want an outline of startise, I might put one up later. If you ask nicely. :D

[kfabel]

I've just reinstalled ISE 12.3 after moving from a Windows to a Linux machine and thought I'd only have to drop the license file in an appropriate place and tell ISE where to find it.. But the menu item 'Help > Manage License' doesn't do or launch anything, and upon checking the tips above, I found that there is no 'xlcm' command or file at all in the 'lin' directory. There is one 'xlicmgr', but that doesn't appear to be the thing talked about, is it? Is there a better way than having to manually add environment variables?

TIA

[kfabel]

Aye, spoke too soon. I was in the 'ISE/bin/lin/' directory, not in 'common/bin/lin/'. There's my xlcm. But upon trying to pick the license file, it keeps freezing, even when run as root. Not sure what about that. However, turned out it's not needed at all: Manually creating a '.Xilinx' directory in my home location and dropping the license file there fixed the problem.

Good day :)

[gremplar]

Under Ubuntu 10.4, I have created the following script file in my home directory to try to get this to work:

#startise - Starts the Xilinx ISE app
cd Xilinx/12.4/ISE_DS
source settings64.sh
. ./settings64.sh
ise &

I run the script file using '. ./startise', and ISE seems to start OK and run.  I haven't written any code with the ISE yet, since I'm new to all of this.

Does this seem logical?  What is everyone else out there doing?

[alkopop79]

Could you guys explain me how to install Webpack? I just installed Ubuntu, I only used Linux years ago for a research on singleboards. I have no idea how to install it. I mean, i don't even know where to start. There are multiple .xinstall folders... Could you help me get started? Thank you for the help in advance!