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I was able to download 9.1i and install it on Fedora Core 4 with no 
problems. I know it sounds silly, but try to download the file on a 
windows machine a FTP (in binary mode) to your Linux machine.

Clint

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, hvymtlsteve wrote:

>
> Aha. Update:
> Every time I attempted to download the software from Xilinx's website I got
> those checksum errors as I described before. I have no idea why...
> I found the single file download version of 8.2i at some old mirror/archive
> site, and was able to complete the install with that file.
>
> Steve
>
>
> hvymtlsteve wrote:
>>
>> Hi there-- you say you have run the ISE tools under Ubuntu.
>> Could you provide any advice for me on how I might get this successfully
>> installed on my machine? I just started using Ubuntu at home and would
>> very much like to break free of my windows machine. I will be perfectly
>> happy to use the parallel JTAG cable, 150 bucks for a USB cable is
>> ridiculous.
>> I cannot even get the install program to run for the 9.1i version, I get a
>> Bus error on line 30-something.
>>
>> I found a page in french describing how to install version 8.1i on Ubuntu
>> 6.06 and tried to follow that (I'm also not picky about version, as long
>> as I get something that functions), but I keep getting a checksum error on
>> the .sh file. The page (translated of course) says that if you get a
>> checksum error you need to "continue" the download of the file, or
>> re-download it, neither of which work for me.
>>
>> Honestly, if it's the easiest way to go, I might just wipe out my machine
>> and start over with CentOS, but I'd rather be able to put it on Ubuntu
>> since I already have that up and running.
>> Or perhaps I can try doing all of my VHDL editing in wine, and use this
>> sc3prog to do my JTAG programming?
>> Any insight is much appreciated,
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeremy Fillingim wrote:
>>>
>>> I have run the Xilinx ISE tools under both Ubuntu and Gentoo
>>> successfully for several years.
>>>
>>> As mentioned above, the cable drivers are going to give you more
>>> trouble than anything else.
>>>
>>> I have had no luck in getting the cable drivers to work with a 64-bit
>>> kernel. You also might want to pay attention to Xilinx's supported
>>> kernel version information with regard to these cable drivers, it may
>>> save you some sleep.
>>>
>>> Also, the JTAG version of the programming cable has given me nothing
>>> but trouble, I'd avoid it if you have the choice.
>>>
>>> On 1/31/07, Juan José 'Peco' San Martín <peco@m...> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:47 +0100, Gunnar Dahlgren wrote:
>>>>> Juan José 'Peco' San Martín wrote:
>>>>>> Hello all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm looking for a good FPGA develoment kit for Linux platform.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I used some Xilinx FPGA and CPLDs using muy custom board and ISE
>>>> under
>>>>>> Microsoft. :-P
>>>>>> I also worked with Altera Nios dev Kit, but also forced to use
>>>> Quartus
>>>>>> under Microsoft :-P
>>>>>> Although both say that they sale the same software for Linux. It's
>>>> more
>>>>>> expensive and/or only for RedHat Enterprise! (and 32bits) :-PP
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you know any solution or alternative to this?.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks to everybody for the answers. Most useful! :-)
>>>>
>>>> Peco
>>>>
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