The BPL are separate from the Board Station package, so I didn’t install them when I installed the BST package. I downloaded the file from the Mentor site. It’s in the same location as the BST package, just further down the page.
After untarring the files, I ran the install program. These files should be installed in the MGC_HOME location. The installation went ok, but I was getting error messages when I tried to place a component from the BPL in Design Architect. Problem was that the post_install_script hadn’t run and I didn’t get any errors about this. The message that I got was that $BPL_LIB/components/… couldn’t be found. And that was true, there was no components directory in the $BPL_LIB location. After looking around the Mentor support site, I found that I needed to run the post_install_script. Here is the syntax:
./post_install_script -target /net/sw/BST2005/2005BST/MGC_HOME.ixl -msicmd /net/sw/BST2005/2005BST/MGC_HOME.ixl/_msidata -mgchome /net/sw/BST2005/2005BST/MGC_HOME.ixl -vco ixl
Had the problem where this wouldn’t run because it said I didn’t have a bplcaddata license. Not true. We did have that license in our file. Turns out that this program doesn’t use the MGLS_LICENSE_FILE variable. It only looks at LM_LICENSE_FILE. So once I set that, the script completed. There is now a components directory in the $BPL_LIB directory. Just make sure that the entry in mgc_location_map is correct.