How To Install fpga-icestorm on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpga-icestorm
on Debian 9.
What is fpga-icestorm
fpga-icestorm is:
Project IceStorm aims at documenting the bitstream format of Lattice iCE40 FPGAs and providing simple tools for analyzing and creating bitstream files. At the moment the focus of the project is on the HX1K-TQ144 and HX8K-CT256 devices, but most of the information is device-independent.
This package contains multiple tools needed to handle the bitstream.
There are three methods to install fpga-icestorm
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fpga-icestorm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fpga-icestorm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fpga-icestorm
Install fpga-icestorm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fpga-icestorm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fpga-icestorm
Install fpga-icestorm Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fpga-icestorm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fpga-icestorm
How To Uninstall fpga-icestorm on Debian 9
To uninstall only the fpga-icestorm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fpga-icestorm
Uninstall fpga-icestorm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fpga-icestorm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fpga-icestorm
Remove fpga-icestorm Configurations and Data
To remove fpga-icestorm
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fpga-icestorm
Remove fpga-icestorm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fpga-icestorm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fpga-icestorm
Dependencies
fpga-icestorm have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpga-icestorm
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.