I know Xilinx does not officially support anything other than RedHat Enterprise Linux, yet so many people have installed it on other versions such as Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc. I am trying to install it on openSuse 10.3 and am having a very difficult time. The instructions I have say to run ./setup in the root of the CD. It runs but very quickly and no error messages are given either. Cd into /bin/ lin and try to run ./setup there and it runs quickly and nothing happens either. Try running ./_setup and get errors about missing libraries, so I manually add the path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then try again and I get errors about the XILINX environment variable not being set. I have no clue what to set this too and have tried many different places. Right now I just have it pointing to /opt/Xilinx/.
Then finally the installer runs. Enter my registration ID and it says it is invalid. I think some variable or file is misplaced. Does anyone have any advice on what I should do? I am a student and have contacted my professor about this issue and detailed it with him but am not sure if he has opened a case with Xilinx support or if he will.