{"id":27,"date":"2019-11-10T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-07-06T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:51:38","slug":"installing-altera-modelsim-on-64-bit-ubuntu-14-04-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/installing-altera-modelsim-on-64-bit-ubuntu-14-04-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Altera Modelsim on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 &#8211; Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I downloaded and the&nbsp;ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition for Linux from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altera.com\/\">Altera<\/a> (now part of Intel) website at the following webpage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.altera.com\/?product=modelsim_ae#tabs-2\">http:\/\/dl.altera.com\/?product=modelsim_ae#tabs-2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then installed it on the 64-bit Ubuntu-14.04. After which I ran the following command from within the bin directory of the installed Modelsim and despite the executable present I got the following error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>command$&gt; .\/vsim: No such file or directory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I investigated further on internet and found that I require 386 &#8211; 32-bit libraries for Ubuntu since the Modelsim seems to be 32-bit. So I took the following steps on the Linux command prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$&gt;sudo dpkg &#8211;add-architecture i386<br>$&gt;sudo apt-get update<br>$&gt;sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386<br>$&gt;sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After installing the above, and invoking vsim, I got the following error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I took the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$&gt;sudo apt-get install libxft2 libxft2:i386 lib32ncurses5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I got the following error and to fix that I took the following steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file.&nbsp;libXext.so.6 not found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$&gt;sudo apt install libxext6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$&gt;sudo apt install libxext6:i386<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, this solved the problem. I was able to invoke Modelsim using .\/vsim command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I downloaded and the&nbsp;ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition for Linux from Altera (now part of Intel) website at the following webpage: http:\/\/dl.altera.com\/?product=modelsim_ae#tabs-2 I then installed it on the 64-bit Ubuntu-14.04. After which I ran the following command from within the bin directory of the installed Modelsim and despite the executable present I got the following error: command$&gt; &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/installing-altera-modelsim-on-64-bit-ubuntu-14-04-linux\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installing Altera Modelsim on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 &#8211; Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,46,50,26,47,48],"tags":[52,59,56,57,58,55,53,54],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altera","category-installation","category-intel","category-linux","category-modelsim","category-ubuntu","tag-altera","tag-altera-fpga","tag-installation","tag-intel","tag-intel-fpga","tag-linux","tag-modelsim","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edgesmart.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}