How to install Vivado 2025.2 on Linux - tomas-fryza/vhdl-examples GitHub Wiki

Install dependencies.

# For correct installation
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

# For the tool it self
$ sudo apt-get install libtinfo5

# For the simulation
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5

Download AMD Unified Installer for FPGA & Adaptive SoCs 2025.2: Linux Self Extracting Web Installer (BIN - 346.7 MB). You will need a free AMD account to do so.

Go to your Download folder and from right-click menu, select open terminal here. Check the MD5 sum to see if the installation file was downloaded correctly. If the checksum value is different, download the installation file again.

$ md5sum FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157_Lin64.bin
# Correct MD5 SUM Value is: abe838aa2e2d3d9b10fea94165e9a303

Add execution permissions and run the installer.

# Add execution permissions
$ chmod +x FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157_Lin64.bin

# Run the installer
$ ./FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157_Lin64.bin

• Use your AMD E-mail Address and Password for user authentication (same as you used to download the installer).

• Select Download and Install Now.

• Select Vivado product to install.

• Select Vivado ML Standard edition to install.

• Customize your installation be selecting Vivado Design Suite and Artix-7 FPGAs devices.

  

• Accept all license agreements.

• Select the installation directory, such as: /home/<your_login>/bin/AMD or /opt/AMD (Admin privileges needed).

  

• Click Next > button to download and install the tool. The installation process will take tens of minutes to complete.

Open .bashrc file in any editor, such as vim

$ vim ~/.bashrc

and add the following line at the end of the file.

source /home/<your_login>/bin/AMD/2025.2/Vivado/settings64.sh

Save the file, exit the editor and reload the shell script by

$ source ~/.bashrc

Run Vivado using terminal emulator (or Desktop shorcut) and follow instructions to create and simulate new project.

$ vivado

Optionally set main properties in menu Tools > Settings...

• Project > Start in directory: Home directory
• Project > Target Language: VHDL
• Source File > File Saving: Automatically save files
• Text Editor > Code Completion: Display a list of choices on demand
• Text Editor > Fonts and Colors > Name: Courier 10 Pitch, Size: 14

Note: If the simulation does not work, the location of crti.o is probably unknown. Search your system and add the location of 64 bit library to $LIBRARY_PATH:

$ find /usr/ -name crti*
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o

$ vim ~/.bashrc
# If the $LIBRARY_PATH is empty, just add the following line
export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

$ source ~/.bashrc

Add board definition files. Download and extract Zip file and copy content of vivado-boards-master/new/board_files/ to your Vivado installation folder YOUR_LOCATION/2025.2/Vivado/data/boards/board_files/.

Note: You can also download the latest available version of your board during the new-project-creating in Vivado by button Refresh on Default Part dialog, followed by download icon in Status column.

Install Linux cable driver. From Digilent Adept 2 software, download latest Linux 64-bit deb version of Linux Runtime and Utilities.

# Install both packages
$ sudo dpkg -i ./digilent.adept.runtime_2.27.9-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ./digilent.adept.utilities_2.7.1-amd64.deb

# If necessary, reboot Linux, or initialize the new udev rules file
$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

You can find detailed and useful information here.

Add local user your-login to Linux group dip.

$ sudo usermod -a -G dip your-login

Run Vivado using terminal emulator (or Desktop shorcut) and follow instructions to program the Nexys A7 board.

Run the uninstall shell script.

$ cd /home/<your_login>/bin/AMD/.xinstall/2025.2/
$ ./xuninstall

Follow the graphical un-installer. Once installation is completed remove unwanted libraries.

$ sudo apt-get autoremove

Use editor and remove line source /home/<your_login>/bin/AMD/2025.2/Vivado/settings64.sh from your ~/.bashrc file.