1. Distribution Workarounds

Ubuntu

• Some of the Xilinx tools (notably EDK and the 9.2 PRFlow) use xilperl which requires libdb-4.1, the oldest version available in the repository is libdb-4.2. The solution is to go to /usr/lib and make a softlink from libdb-4.2.so to libdb-4.1.so. You should now be able to use xilperl without any issues.
• Some versions of Planahead when used with Ubuntu have an issue with the Java Runtime that causes a blank Planahead window to appear. The solution is to set the following environment variable: export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit

Ubuntu 9.10

• With Ubuntu 9.10 libstdc++5 has been removed from the repositories. If you have older software that requires it, you can install the Debian package from: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libstdc++5/download

-- AliSohanghpurwala - 04 Nov 2009