How to install Xilinx Vivado on Linux! 12 easy steps!

How to install Xilinx Vivado on Linux! Including a desktop icon! In this video I show how to install Vivado on Ubuntu Linux, however these steps should work for other Linux distributions like Centos and Redhat as well. The basics steps and code can be found below. Have a great day and don’t forget to Love well!

Step 1. Download the Vivado web installer here:
https://www.xilinx.com/support/download.html

Step 2. Change the permissions on the install file with:
(make sure you are in the directory where the download resides before issuing this command)
chmod +x [fileName]

Step 3. Run the installer with admin permissions with:
sudo ./[filename]

Step 4. Select the edition to install.

Step 5. Customize your installation.

Step 6. Install and wait… … … (this takes a while cause it downloads the actual program files)

Step 7. Add Vivado to your environment.
(add this line to the end of your “.profile” or “.bashrc” in your home folder)
source /[install directory]/Vivado/[YourVersion]/settings64.sh

Step 8. Make sure this works by restarting the computer and typing vivid in a terminal.

Step 9. Download and install gnome-panel for adding Desktop Icon with this:
sudo apt install –no-install-recommends gnome-panel

Step 10. Create a new Desktop Icon with this:
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ –create-new

Step 11. Use this in the fields for the Icon creation:
Type: Application
Name: Vivado
Command: vivado
Comment: [YourVersionNumber]

Step 12. Change your Icon!
go to your desktop folder in terminal
use your favorite editor (I like nano)
nano Vivado.desktop
Where it says “Icon=” add the path to the Icon you want!

A few more useful commands if you run into issues:
Install fix files on linux:
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6

The driver install file can be found here:
/tools/Xilinx/Vivado/2018.3/data/xicom/cable_drivers/lin64/install_script/install_drivers
From this directory run this command:
sudo ./install_drivers

Eduardo Munoz answered another issue that was found. If you get the error:
application-specific initialization failed: couldn’t load file “librdi_commontasks.so”: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Try:
sudo nano /etc/os-release
then edit VERSION= to:
VERSION=”18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)”

(Or maybe your version of Ubuntu)

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