virtuoso on Fedora (2)

I believe the full error message would have given more details - looking at the wrapper script. It should have said something like this:

virtuoso:   ERROR: Unrecognized platform.
virtuoso:          Make sure that your current host architecture and OS are
virtuoso:          supported by Cadence for the application: virtuoso.
virtuoso:          If you contact your Cadence representative, please provide the
virtuoso:          following information:
virtuoso:              - cds_plat returned:
virtuoso:                  fedora not supported
virtuoso:              - on platform: Linux lnx-andrewb-m65 2.6.18-36.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 20 14:26:46 EDT 2007 x86_64

The bit in italics is just what I fooled the cds_plat command into return just to reproduce the error message.

Regardless of what it returns, there is a reason why platforms are not supported. Nobody has tested them. Fedora 15 is extremely new, and IC614 is not even supported on RHEL6, let alone the latest community version.

We support RHEL 4, RHEL 5, SLES 10, SLES 11 for IC614. That's it. Nothing else is tested, so you really should stick to a supported OS version. It would however be helpful to know what you get from the full error message - but even if you were able to hack things so that it worked, that really would not be recommended.

Regards,

Andrew.

After solving this first problem installing csh interpreter, I met another with the library manager that can not be launched. I gave up fedora15. I tried with Ubuntu 10.04 and miracle, I do not have any problem in the first steps of my test. I hope it will continue. For any people that want to use a free OS, I would advise CentOS that is fully compatible (I could not because of hardware detection problems). But Ubuntu 10.04 seems to work fine too.

Although none of these are supported by Cadence and NO TESTING AT ALL is done on these. CentOS may be similar to RHEL, but no testing is done nevertheless.

I do struggle to work out why you would pay for professional EDA tools and then use an unsupported OS; the OS is not expensive compared with the EDA tools.

Andrew.

Andrew Beckett said:

I do struggle to work out why you would pay for professional EDA tools and then use an unsupported OS; the OS is not expensive compared with the EDA tools.

Some universities like to do things the cheaper way and then make savvy grad students fix all the problems... 

Exactly tkhan  :-)

It is why I use this forum to help me to solve some problems. I do not have access to supported OS, so I can not use Cadence support. And I know there is others persons in my case. So, it is a way to use and help this community at the same time.

In my case, I first experienced CentOS, that worked well with Cadence. But after a HD formatting, impossible to install ethernet adapter, so, impossible to access license on the server. So, I tried Fedora that solved my problem of ethernet but caused problems with the use of Cadence. The solution I adopted is to use Ubuntu 10.04 and until now, all is working without problem (help to install : http://getglitched.com/?page_id=143).So, I will not write more in this post.

And my advice is, if you want to work with free OS, use CentOS (wheareas Ubuntu seems to work fine too).

Regards,

Using an unsupported OS doesn't preclude you from using Cadence support, but there is a limit to how much we can help you if the issue is directly related to the OS you're using.

Regards,

Andrew.