[Share] Solve the problem of failed installation of Vitis 2019.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

1. problem#

I failed to install Vitis 2019.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and received an error message.

Ubuntu 16.04 installation of Vivado 2019.2 failed error message

2. Hard Disk Size#

Check the size of the hard disk, the system disk still has 168G, and the installation directory /opt/Xilinx still has 587G, all of which are sufficient.

$ df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

udev            63G    0  63G  0%/dev

tmpfs            13G  244M  13G  2%/run

/dev/sda2      439G  249G  168G  60% /

tmpfs            63G  112M  63G  1%/dev/shm

tmpfs          5.0M    05.0M  0%/run/lock

tmpfs            63G    0  63G  0%/sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/sda1      511M  3.7M  508M  1%/boot/efi

/dev/sdb1      1.8T  1.2T  587G  67%/opt/Xilinx

tmpfs            13G  24K  13G  1%/run/user/108

tmpfs            13G  36K  13G  1%/run/user/1001

tmpfs            13G  28K  13G  1%/run/user/1000

3. File md5 value#

Check that the md5 value of the file Vivado 2019.2 is correct.

$ md5sum Xilinx_Vitis_2019.2_1106_2127.tar.gz

d63bae9cad9bcaa4b2c7f6df9480eaa6  Xilinx_Vitis_2019.2_1106_2127.tar.gz

Check the size and md5 value of the file rdi_0143_2019.2_1106_2127.xz. Compared with the normal file installed under Ubuntu 18.04, it is also the same.

$ ls Xilinx_Vitis_2019.2_1106_2127/payload/rdi_0143_2019.2_1106_2127.xz -l -h

- rw-r--r--1 hankf hankf 4.2M Nov  716:11 Xilinx_Vitis_2019.2_1106_2127/payload/rdi_0143_2019.2_1106_2127.xz

$ md5sum Xilinx_Vitis_2019.2_1106_2127/payload/rdi_0143_2019.2_1106_2127.xz

6 e82a2dc4449a3354e347eac0e99dccd  Xilinx_Vitis_2019.2_1106_2127/payload/rdi_0143_2019.2_1106_2127.xz

4. Firewall#

Turn off the firewall, or the installation fails.

$ sudo ufw status

[ sudo] password for hankf:

Status: inactive

5. Delete DocNav and xic#

After performing the following steps, the installation is successful.

1. Delete the ~/.Xilinx (i.e. /home/users/<user_name>/.Xilinx) directory.

2. Remove the /opt/Xilinx/.xinstall directory.

3. Delete the ~/.local/share/Xilinx (i.e. /home/hankf/.local/share/Xilinx/) directory

4. Remove the DocNav (under /opt/Xilinx/DocNav and /opt/Xilinx/.xinstall/DocNav)

5. Remove the Xic (under /opt/Xilinx/xic and /opt/Xilinx/.xinstall/xic)

For insurance, you can search for "DocNav" and "xic" in the user directory and the installation directory, and delete all their directories.

This may be caused by previous incomplete installation of DocNav or xic.