Xilinx ISE 10.1

I then ran the setup script in the root of the download folder. This appeared to install correctly, but after the software was installed, I could not figure out how to run the software (it installs no shortcuts for you). So, after a while, I figured out that the ISE software did not install because I was running a 64 bit version of Ubuntu. I eventually solved this by downloading the full version of webpack (instead of the 50mb web install). Then, I ran:

bin/lin/setup

This gave me an error:
error while loading shared libraries: libuuid.so.1

So, I looked this up online, and download the 32 bit libuuid deb from here (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/libuuid1_1.38-2ubuntu2_i386.deb), extracted the deb file (right click, and select extract here), and extracted data.tar.gz. Then, cd to the data/lib folder from the extracted data.tar.gz, and move the two files to /usr/lib32

sudo cp libuuid.so.* /usr/lib32

After this, go to the install directory, and run:

10.1/ISE/bin/lin/ise

Most of ISE programs worked for me, but I had some trouble getting the floorplanner to work. You need libXm (http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/openmotif/libmotif3_2.2.3-2_i386.deb). Install this in the same way that you installed libuuid (for more help, please request in the comments).

Impact:

I never got this to work (it didn’t work for me in Windows XP either though). I had to use the export software that came with with my fpga board). Since this does not work in linux, I tried running it through virtualbox (with usb host sharing). This unfortunately did not work, so I got it working under qemu (there are more details on how to get this working here (http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:qemu#using_an_usb_device_in_qemu))

Sources:
http://braiden.org/?p=55
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.arch.fpga/2008-03/msg00838.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=203459

For school, we have just started using Xilinx 10.1 with the Digilent Basys board. When I looked on the Xilinx website, I was happy because the webpack (the software I needed for my class) worked with linux. I downloaded the software, and was hoping that it would be smooth sailing from there.