How to install AMD (Xilinx) Vivado 2025.1 onto Linux Mint 21.3

Installation

Installing required libraries. This stops Vivado from hanging at end of installation.

sudo apt-get install libtinfo5 libncurses5

Run Vivado setup

./xsetup

Install drivers for Xilinx Platform Cable USB II programmer

cd /usr/apps/xilinx/2025.1/Vivado/data/xicom/cable_drivers/lin64/install_script/install_drivers

sudo ./install_drivers

If programmer was already plugged-in during installation, remove and then re-connect the programmer for it to be detected correctly.

If Simulation isn't working, install the build-essential package.

sudo apt-get install build-essential