Install NGSPICE & MAGIC - VLSI Tools for Ubuntu OS.

         Installation of VLSI design tools such as "ngspice" and "magic" is fairely easy in Ubuntu Linux OS. The simple steps are given below. Please note that Ubuntu uses "debian" packages.

Steps :

1. Go to the below sites and download the packages.

MAGIC:
http://tuxmaniac.com/work/packages/magic/magic_7.5.129-1_i386.deb

NGSPICE:
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ngspice/ngspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb

XSPICE:
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ngspice/xspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb

Note : XSPICE is a dependent package for NGSPICE.

2. Install packages using following command.

MAGIC:
$ dpkg -i magic_7.5.129-1_i386.deb


NGSPICE:
$ dpkg -i xspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb ngspice_17.0.0-1_i386.deb


Note: You can not install "xspice" & "ngspice" independently. You need to install both at a time.


Happy Designing....


Note : I took help from Mr. Prassana Kalyan, KarMic for this. Thanks to him.