Installation and Licensing

[alkopop79]

Apologies, found a great tutorial that should work:

http://www.philpem.me.uk/elec/fpga/ise12ubuntu/

[alkopop79]

The more research I do, the more confused I am. Apparently Xilinx only supports Red Hat and Suse Linux. None of them are free unfortunately, while the link in the previous post is about installing Webpack on Ubuntu - which is not supported but it's free. So which OS should I use? I'm skint and would rather use Ubuntu... Any ideas?

[kepsz]

ISE Webpack installs and runs well for me in Debian squeeze (wheezy repos) 32bit and Chakra Project 32 bit.

Btw, platform cabel driver fails to install in both platforms, so u need to use alternate programing solutions for your devices if exists.

[alkopop79]

Some reported success with Ubuntu. Might download Debian then. I had partial success with the install: managed to get xsetup running and everything went fine till the end where I got the following error:

Could not create destination path /opt/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS

I went back to the 'Select Destination Dierctory' where /opt/Xilinx/13.4 is chosen by default. Any ideas? 

[alkopop79]

I've tried to find Debian's 32 bit version but the source pages no longer exists. After a long and extensive research it seems Debian Squeeze is no longer available. I still can't install Webpack, please help!!!!!

[kepsz]

U can download every version of Squeeze in debian.org's download page: squeeze download page

In my installs, i installed ISE webpack to a directory in a mounted NTFS drive, because of the enormous storage space  requirements. This drive is mounted with R/W premissions to ordinary users, no SU required.

[alkopop79]

Managed to install webpack after several operating system re-installs. Sticked with Ubuntu, it seems to work fine! T

[fperal]

>  Apparently Xilinx only supports Red Hat and Suse Linux. None of them are free

SuSE     IS     free:  www.opensuse.org

regards

[cousteau]

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fperal wrote:

SuSE     IS     free: www.opensuse.org

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That's not SuSE, that's OpenSUSE.  It's not the same, although OpenSUSE is based on SuSE.  Xilinx specifically requires "SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (32-bit and 64-bit)".  Xilinx may or may not work on other versions due to version changes, missing programs, etc.

[nefeesro]

I'm stuck in the same part you were, I managed to run the xsetup, but I cannot make the part of the settings32.sh . Once I type "ise" on the terminal, nothing happens.
Can you tell me what steps did you use?

Thanks in advance