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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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