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CZhan11
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7 years ago

Modelsim installation on Ubuntu 18.4 erros

error message: "./vish: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Has already installed libxft-dev, libxft2, lib32ncurses5.

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  • Abe's avatar
    Abe
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    7 years ago

    You will need to install the missing libraries in Linux for ModelSim to work. Type the following command at the Terminal window prompt.

    sudo apt-get install libxtst6

  • msanyoto's avatar
    msanyoto
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    6 years ago

    on ubuntu 16.04, 64bit system. I do the following.

    sudo apt-get install libxext6:i386

    and it's work.