To bring my Digilent Arty board to life I had to install “Vivado Lab 2016.2”, a software to program Xilinx FPGA’s. Specifically I used to follow the SiFive Freedom U500 Arty FPGA Getting Started Guide. While installing Vivado Lab succeeded, I had some trouble running it on my Arch Linux. The Shortcut did not show anything, but when running it from console I could see the following error:
$ /opt/Xilinx/Vivado_Lab/2016.2/bin/vivado_lab application-specific initialization failed: couldn't load file "librdi_commontasks.so": libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It turned out that just linking the new ncurses library makes it working
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
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