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AKost
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7 years ago

Altera-Modelsim can not start on Ubuntu 18.04

Hi, I installed the Modelsim Altera edition and now i can not start it. I downloaded the .run file, made it executable using chmod +x command and than ran it. It installed without problems into ~int...
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mfro
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7 years ago

There are at least two issues with modelsim and current Ubuntu/Debian 64 bit installations:

  1. you need to have installed all required 32 bit libraries
  2. modelsim crashes with current libXft libraries. You need to install an older version to make it run

Since I usually can't remember what I have done last time, I bookmarked https://gist.github.com/PrieureDeSion/e2c0945cc78006b00d4206846bdb7657 that has a good recipe on what to do to make modelsim run