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Installation Notes on Vivado

Check the supported OS first, Vivado Design Suite might have weird issues even if the installtion goes well. To ensure stable and less hassel with the setup you should check the supported OS for Vivado Design Suite to see what OS you would like to use.

According to Vivado Documentation for 2025.1
AMD supports the following operating systems on x86-64 processor architectures.

Microsoft Windows Professional/Enterprise 10.0 22H2 Update
Microsoft Windows 11.0 23H2 and 24H2 Update
Red Hat Enterprise Workstation/Server 8.10, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5 (64-bit), English
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 (64-bit), English
Amazon Linux 2 AL2 LTS (64-bit)
AlmaLinux 8.10, 9.4, and 9.5 (64-bit)
Ubuntu Linux 22.04.2, 22.04.3, 22.04.4, 22.04.5, 24.04, and 24.04.1 (64-bit), English
Rocky Linux 8.10
warning

It does not work well on unsupported OS, I tried on Debian12 but ended up with a lot of issues. Use supported OS to avoid unnecessary hassle.

I used Ubuntu Linux 24.04.01, you can download older Ubuntu installtion files from ubuntu releases index.

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Once you finished installing Ubuntu, there are some dependencies you have to install.

Ubuntu OS requires the libtinfo.so.5 according to Official AMD documentation for 2025.1

Install libtinfo.so
How to install libtinfo5 on Ubuntu24.04
sudo apt update
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libtinfo5_6.3-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libtinfo5_6.3-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb

Source

You also have to install build essentials for gcc.

Install build-essentials
sudo apt install build-essential

Ubuntu Linux 24.04