This is how I installed Libero SoC v2021.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa). It is an update of my previous post.

Get License

Create a directory for the license server (here I use ~/.local/share/microsemi/license)

mkdir --p /home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/license

Download the “Linux Daemon” from https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1711-licensing#downloads to the license directory and extract it with

tar xf Linux_Licensing_Daemon.tar.Z

Create an account on https://www.microsemi.com and request a “Libero Silver 1Yr Floating License for Windows/Linux Server”. You have to enter your MAC address (12 hexadecimal digits without colons), which you can get by typing

ip link | grep ether

The license file is sent via email. Store the license file License.dat in the license directory.

Now the first four lines of the license file must be edited, but not the rest of the file. In the first line, replace <put.hostname.here> by localhost. In lines 2 to 4 replace PATH by the absolute path to the license daemon directory. The first 4 lines schould then look like that:

SERVER localhost 112233445566 1702
DAEMON actlmgrd /home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/license/Linux_Licensing_Daemon/actlmgrd
DAEMON mgcld /home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/license/Linux_Licensing_Daemon/mgcld
VENDOR snpslmd /home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/license/Linux_Licensing_Daemon/snpslmd

The license manager requires that /usr/tmp exists (otherwise you get “FlexNet Licensing error:-25,234”)

sudo ln -s /tmp /usr/tmp

Install the depedencies

sudo apt install lsb

And start the license server with

Linux_Licensing_Daemon/lmgrd -c License.dat -log /tmp/lmgrd.log

If you get a “file not found” error, install lsb.

On my system I have the problem that the license works only for a few minutes. I don’t know why, but when I start Libero a second time after a few minutes, it doesn’t recognise the license. Stopping and restarting the license server helps:

Linux_Licensing_Daemon/lmdown -c License.dat -q
Linux_Licensing_Daemon/lmgrd -c License.dat -log /tmp/lmgrd.log

Install Libero

Download “Libero SoC v2021.1 for Linux” from https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/design-resources/1750-libero-soc#downloads.

The downloaded binary is a self-extracting archive built with InstallAnywhere. Before executing it, set its execute bit must be set and some dependencies have to be installed:

sudo apt install libxtst6:i386 libxrender1:i386 apt-file
chmod +x Libero_SoC_v2021.1_lin.bin
./Libero_SoC_v2021.1_lin.bin

Now the graphical installer should be launched. If not, there are still some library dependencies unresolved. From my experience, the console mode installation does not work at all. Quit it by typing quit and try to install additional X or Qt libraries until the graphical installer is started.

Within the graphical installer, I recommend to change the install path to /home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/Libero_SoC-v12.1 and the common directory to /home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/common. Otherwise you need root permissions whenever Libero updates the IP cores.

The graphical installer checks for dependencies and suggests a command line to install them. Copy this line to a terminal and prepend it with sudo. When I tired it, it was

sudo apt-get install -y xfonts-intl-asian xfonts-intl-chinese \
    xfonts-intl-chinese-big xfonts-intl-japanese xfonts-intl-japanese-big \
    ksh libxft2:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 \
    packagekit-gtk3-module:i386

If apt-get complains that a package is not available, simply remove it and try again (I had to remove packagekit-gtk3-module:i386).

Before actually starting Libero, some environment variables have to be set:

export LM_LICENSE_FILE=1702@localhost
export SNPSLMD_LICENSE_FILE=1702@localhost
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib
/home/USERNAME/.local/share/microsemi/Libero/bin/libero