Installation Instructions
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Install instructions for Ubuntu
The stable PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Ubuntu is located
here.
Qucs 0.0.18 packages are available for Ubuntu versions 14.10 (Utopic) and 14.04 (Trusty).
Qucs 0.0.17 packages are available for Ubuntu versions 13.04 (Raring), 12.10 (Quantal), and 12.04 (Precise).
To add the package repository and install Qucs, use the following sequence of commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:qucs/qucs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qucs
Install instructions for Windows
qucs-<version>-win32-mingw482-asco-freehdl-adms.zip
Extract the package in a convenient location and run the qucs.bat script.
The package contains ASCO, FreeHDL and ADMS.
To use FreeHDL for VHDL simulation or ADMS for Verilog-A compilation a compiler is necessary.
The required MinGW compiler can be found here.
Please follow the README.md file distributed along with the Windows package for further information.
If Icarus Verilog is used for digital Verilog-HDL simulation the installer script must be installed on the computer additionally. Current versions can be obtained at http://bleyer.org/icarus/.
In order to use the SPICE preprocessor ps2sp successfully a TinyPerl installation is required. It can be obtained at http://tinyperl.sourceforge.net/. It must be ensured that the tinyperl.exe is accessible via the PATH environment variable.
Install instructions for MacOSX
qucs-<version>-macosx-<platform>.pkg
Copy this file onto your desktop and double-click it. Follow
the installer instructions.