Installing all
the Free and Open Source EDA Tools on Fedora Release 11 Leonidas i386
The GNU/Linux distribution Fedora provides a lot of free and
open
source EDA tools for performing VLSI, Embedded and PCB designing. The
procedures to install all the provided EDA tools are as follows:
Method A:
If you have a fast Internet connection and you have
established
the Internet connection in your machine then follow the steps given
below:
1. Open an instance of a terminal and run su to get root
access:
]$ su
password:
2. Enter the root password and press ENTER. On correct root password
entry the prompt of the shell would change from ]$ to ]#.
3. Run the following command (copy and paste it to the terminal and
press ENTER) to use the package manager of Fedora, yum for installing
the tools:
]# yum -y
install irsim alliance* pharosc* ngspice* magic magic-doc iverilog
ghdl* gtkwave gwave gspiceui \
octave* qtoctave
freehdl archimedes electric ktechlab kicad pikdev piklab avr* pikloops
sdcc* gsim85 \
netgen xcircuit geda*
gerbv vhd2vl gds2pov dinotrace drawtiming gnuplot gresistor qucs gnucap
linsmith \
nasm yasm pcb tkgate
toped vym yum-presto perl-Hardware-Vhdl-Parser perl-Hardware-Vhdl-Tidy \
perl-Hardware-Vhdl-Lexer perl-Verilog presto-utils
perl-Verilog-CodeGen perl-Hardware-Verilog-Parser \
perl-Verilog-Readmem
perl-SystemPerl perl-SystemC-Vregs perl-Verilog perl-ModelSim-List dia
nedit \
gpsim* gputils* sk2py
deltarpm LabPlot plotutils gtkterm gtk+ gtk+-devel gperf ddd yumex fvwm
Method B -
Fedora Release 11 Leonidas i386 Installations Only:
In case you do not have Internet connection on some of the Fedora
Release 11 Leonidas i386 machines on which you want to install all the
EDA tools, but want to download all the .RPM files of packages and
their dependencies so that you can manually install them one by one or
you want to avoid having to download the packages repeatedly for every
machine, then follow the steps given below:
1. Download the EDA_Tools_Leonidas.tar.bz2
file
2. Open a terminal and change directory to the downloaded location and
extract the compressed archive using the following command:
]$ tar -jxvf EDA_Tools_Leonidas.tar.bz2
3. Change directory to the extracted directory.
]$ cd EDA_Tools_Leonidas
4. There would be three directories inside it - Install, Install_First and Update. Run su to get root
access:
]$ su
password:
5.
Enter the root password and press ENTER. Run the following command
first:
]# rpm -ivh Install_First/*.rpm
6. If on running the above it says that some package(s) are already
installed. Then change directory to Update and then delete that
respective .RPM files of the package(s) and the run the command again.
7. Once the above installation has succeeded, run the following command
to update certain packages:
]# rpm -Uvh Update/*.rpm
8. After updating the packages, using the above command, run the
following command to install all the EDA tools:
]# rpm -ivh Install/*.rpm
Please Note:
- Method B is applicable only for Fedora Release 11 Leonidas
i386.
- Depending on how the package selection was done at the time
of
installing Fedora Release 11, the steps mentioned in Method B may have changes.
That is, if any package(s) in the Install_First directory is already
installed in the machine, then remove those package(s) and try
installing. Sometimes no package in this directory would required to be
installed again if they were all pre-installed.
- The above point would apply for steps 7 and 8 too of Method
B.
- In case of any issues, contact me on E-Mail and please
attach full details of the commands you ran and the output
error(s) you observed.
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