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G2 itself can run on Linux Rocky 8 or later, in addition to Ubuntu. However, the prebuilt OpenROAD binary shipped with G2 requires Ubuntu 22.04 or later (it needs glibc 2.35+, which Rocky/RHEL 8 does not provide) — this is only a requirement if you plan to run OpenROAD flows. G2 has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.04.
G2 relies on the following Linux command-line tools: nproc, zcat, firefox, tcsh, gvim, tclsh.
On Ubuntu, install them with:
sudo apt-get install -y coreutils gzip firefox tcsh vim-gtk3 tcl