Unzip the tarball & kick off the installation process.
Unzip option 1 - Unzip the tarball (verbose output)
steve@Desktop:~$ tar -xvf ~/Downloads/FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157.tar -C /tmp
Unzip option 2 - Unzip the tarball (quiet with progress bar)
steve@Desktop:~$ pv ~/Downloads/FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157.tar | tar -xf - -C /tmp
Install - Using the command line
Generate a default configuration file (select option 1) :-
steve@Desktop:~$ /tmp/FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157/xsetup -b ConfigGen
This is a fresh install.
Running in batch mode...
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AMD Installer for FPGAs & Adaptive SoCs |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Build Date: 2025-10-29 07:17:12 MDT |
| Branch: 2025.2 |
| Version: 35ec23c |
| |
| Copyright (c) 1986-2022 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Select a Product from the list:
1. Vitis
2. Vivado
3. Vitis Embedded Development
4. BootGen
5. Lab Edition
6. Hardware Server
7. Power Design Manager (PDM)
8. On-Premises Install for Cloud Deployments
9. Documentation Navigator (Standalone)
Please choose: 1
INFO - Config file available at /home/steve/.Xilinx/install_config.txt. Please use -c to point to this install configuration.
Edit the default configuration file to customize the following :-
- Set Destination to /opt/Xilinx
- Set Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC to 1
- Set CreateProgramGroupShortcuts to 0
- Set CreateDesktopShortcuts to 0
steve@Desktop:~$ subl ~/.Xilinx/install_config.txt
Install using the updated configuration file.
steve@Desktop:~$ /tmp/FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157/xsetup --agree XilinxEULA,3rdPartyEULA --batch Install --config ~/.Xilinx/install_config.txt
This is a fresh install.
Running in batch mode...
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AMD Installer for FPGAs & Adaptive SoCs |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Build Date: 2025-10-29 07:17:12 MDT |
| Branch: 2025.2 |
| Version: 35ec23c |
| |
| Copyright (c) 1986-2022 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
INFO - User has accepted the EULAs.
WARN - Warning: you are running on an OS version that is not officially supported. AMD does not recommend installing on unsupported OSes.
INFO - Installing Edition: Vitis Unified Software Platform
INFO - Installation directory is /opt/Xilinx
Installing files, 99% completed. (Done)
It took 5 minutes to install files.
WARN -
######## Execution of Pre/Post Installation Tasks Failed ########
Warning: AMD software was installed successfully, but an unexpected status was returned from the following post installation task(s) Generating installed device list for Model Composer: GenerateDeviceFileListLin_Model_Composer script failed. Please check Install log file for more information.
INFO - Applying patch: /tmp/FPGAs_AdaptiveSoCs_Unified_SDI_2025.2_1114_2157/payload/installer_patch_2025.2_2025.2_1114_2157.zip to /opt/Xilinx/2025.2
INFO - Found /tmp/TMP_LD_LIB_PATH2026-03-19-09-08-06-1773911286/installer_patchs_2025.2_2025.2_1114_21573271639274552002497/patch.sh, executing it.
INFO - Patch script done: CmdResult [stdout=, stderr=, exitCode=0]
INFO - Log file is copied to : /opt/Xilinx/.xinstall/2025.2/xinstall.log
INFO - Tool installation completed.To run the tool successfully, please run the script "installLibs.sh" under /opt/Xilinx/2025.2/Vitis/scripts to install the necessary OS packages, which requires the root privilege.
Install the suggested libraries.
steve@Desktop:~$ sudo /opt/Xilinx/2025.2/Vitis/scripts/installLibs.sh
Create symbolic links to make the new install apear in the same location as the previous ones.
steve@Desktop:~$ ln -s /opt/Xilinx/2025.2/Vivado /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2025.2
steve@Desktop:~$ ln -s /opt/Xilinx/2025.2/Vitis /opt/Xilinx/Vitis/2025.2
steve@Desktop:~$ ln -s /opt/Xilinx/2025.2/Model_Composer /opt/Xilinx/Model_Composer/2025.2
