Vivado missing library error (libtinfo.so.5)

[flyingfork]

Hello,

In case anyone run's into this problem like I have.

I'm using Xubuntu 20.04 LTS with Vivado 2020.2. After installing the application and trying to run it I got an error....

devadmin@devadmin-zybo:~/Workspace/VivadoTemp$ source /tools/Xilinx/Vivado/2020.2/settings64.sh && vivado
application-specific initialization failed: couldn't load file "librdi_commontasks.so": libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I solved this problem by running the following command.

devadmin@devadmin-zybo:~/Workspace/VivadoTemp$ sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
 

[Tim S.]

@flyingfork,

The Release Notes document for each edition of Vivado / Vitis contains a section on System Requirements and System Prerequisits. The x86_64 and i386 libraries requiried for executing the DocNav and the toolchain are listed. It requires you to set a second dpkg architecture (i386) and install both x86_64 and i386 binaries of QT, GTK, and multiple others. I recommend following Xilinx's guidelines so that you don't have unexplained failures.

Regards,

Tim S.

[Tim S.]

The 2020.2 release notes point to the following Xilinx Answer Record:

 

https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/66184.html