Instructions for installing Xilinx ISE 14.7 onto Linux Mint 21.3.
(NOTE: I needed the Platform Cable II USB drivers from AMD's Vivado software
package to get my programmer working. Nothing that came with Xilinx's ISE
installtion seemed to work with my programmer.)
The installion of Xilinx ISE 14.7 requires the library "libncurses5" which is not installed by default in Linux Mint 21.3 and not included with the installation package from Xilinx. To install the missing "libncurses5" library, execute the following command in a command line terminal.
sudo apt-get install libncurses5
To install the Xilinx ISE 14.7 package, run the "xsetup" script in a command line terminal.
./xsetup
After the installation, the Xilinx ISE License Manager will not run. It requires the library "libQt_Network" to start. This library is not included as part of the installation package but can be downloaded from AMD's website (libQt_Network Library) .
After file is downloaded, uncompress the archive. Rename the file "libQt_Network_lin64.so" to "libQt_Network.so". Copy the renamed file to the common "lin64" library folder of the Xilinx ISE installation. ( path of installation /common/lib/lin64.)
You can now successfully run the License Manager. Open a command line terminal and navigate to path of installation /common/bin/lin64 and run the collowing command.
./xlcm
The sofware suite should now be installed and working.