Installation of ghdl

The w11 project uses the open source VHDL simulator ghdl.

It used to be part of most distributions. Unfortunately the Debian maintainer for ghdl refused at some point to integrate ghdl into Debian Etch. Therefore ghdl was part of Debian 5 "Lenny", and again of Debian 6 "Squeeze", and is missing again in Debian 7 "Wheezy" (the current 'stable').

The glitch at Debian unfortunately lead to the removal of ghdl from Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" up to 11.10 "Oneiric" included ghdl, the currently maintained versions 12.04 LTS "Precise", 14.04 LTS "Trusty" and 14.10 "Utopic" unfortunately don't.

To install ghdl on an up-to-date Debian or Ubuntu systems you have the following options (as of early February 2015):

Ubuntu Precise and Trusty

Thanks to Peter Gavin Ubuntu packages for GHDL are available from his PPA 'Personal Package Archives', see
```
  https://launchpad.net/~pgavin/+archive/ghdl
```
So to install ghdl under Ubuntu use
```
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pgavin/ghdl
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install ghdl
```
Debian Wheezy

Thanks to Joris van Rantwijk Debian packages for GHDL are available from the web site
```
  http://jorisvr.nl/ghdl_debian.html
```
There are also Ubuntu packages, but Joris focus is clearly on Debian.

Only Debian and Ubuntu are actively used by the w11a developer. The situation for other Linux distributions is therefore just taken from the respective web sites (status October 2013):

Suse
For Suse 12.2 and 12.3 un-official ghdl packages are available, but they seem to be based on the long obsolete ghdl version 0.27.
Redhat/Fedora
For Fedora 18,19, and 20 packages are available based on ghdl 0.29
Gentoo
Packages, marked 'unstable', are available based on ghdl 0.29 and 0.27

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