Steps for installing Cadence IC5141 on Centos5

[anassar]

how to install cadence ic5141

This topic is about installing Cadence IC5141 on Centos5 distribution of Linux.

This post augments the topic at the following link:


This installation was implemented on a Sony VAIO laptop. Installation of IC5141 failed on Fedora Core 9 run by this hardware. As recommended by Cadence, RHEL-4 or 5 is the operating system to use with IC5141. To the best of my knowledge, the closest relative to RHEL-5 is Centos5, on which I managed to install IC5141.

I followed the installation procedure detailed in the link above with one modification:

Instead of installing the missing libraries and fonts after installing IC5141, I had to install them first. This is because installation of IC5141 seems to have messed up the gcc version required by Python upon which the yum utility is working, which made the yum utility to cease working after IC5141 is installed and cannot be used to query missing libraries and install them.

Before installing IC5141, use the command "yum list xorg-x11-font*" to list all available xorg-x11 fonts. All available such fonts are listed with a flag indicating whether or not they are installed on the system. Use "yum install font" to install all xorg-x11 fonts not currently installed on the system as indicated by the list returned above., where font is the font package to be installed.
Also, the "yum list libXt*" and "yum list libXp*" and "yum list libXext*" bring you lists of all graphics libraries that may be missing in your system and that are needed by IC5141. If the lists returned by those commands indicate that those libraries are installed on the system, then there's no need to install them. Otherwise, use "yum install library" to install the missing libraries of them.

After all missing libraries/packages have been installed, just follow the procedure referred to by the link above without modification.

 

[anassar]

cadence ic5141 libc

An important thing to note is that:
Before the last step of the installation procedure (which is "Configuting Installed Products"), you should see if the "tools" symbolic link (which points to IC5141/tools.lnx86) has been created or not. If not, you should create it before configuring the installed products using the following shell command.
ln -s tools.lnx86/ tools
Without this step, the Leapfrog Analyzer installation and lfvhdComp configuration would fail.

Added after 30 minutes:

At the end of IC5141, we are asked:
Prepare libraries for AMS Designer
1) Add an IUS installation directory to path
2) Quit

Write 1 and press ENTER. Then you will be asked to provide the LDV path. In any other shell, write "ncroot". This will return the path to use in this step.
Then, you will be offered 3 options.

Prepare libraries for AMS Designer
1) Add an LDV installation directory to path
2) Compile libraries with /cad/IUS56
3) Quit
#?

Select the second (Compile Libraries with LDV). This will compile AMS sample libraries.

At the end select Quit.

That's it.

Added after 1 minutes:

In order to compile libraries later, please invoke amsLibCompile.

Added after 1 hours 40 minutes:

If Softload didn't ask for the hotfix (ISR) CDROMs during the main installation, you can go to the ISR CDROM1 after finishing installation and run ./SETUP.SH. Then Select option#6 (Update installed products). This will replace old packages with new ones.

Without the hotfix installation, you will get this error when you try to run ICFB:

"symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference"
which means that icfb fails to link to GLIBC_2.0.

 

[anassar]

hotfix for ic5141

I found out that (as other posts have already confirmed), starting the installation from the update (ISR) CDs is the right thing to do. Don't start installation from the base CDs. They will not recognize the update CDs.

 

[omara007]

Guys .. would you please list all the tools coming under IC5 or IC6 ? ..