Help with Cmake version problem stopping IC design software install

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Hi:

Please forward this to the correct area if this isn’t the right team. I am a student working on an online integrated circuit design course. I am using ubuntu linux 26. I am trying to install tools so I can do the coursework. While installing, I get the following error having to do with C-make. I have scoured the internet to figure out how to fix this but have not been able to get anything to work. Here is the error:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (cmake_minimum_required):
Compatibility with CMake < 3.5 has been removed from CMake.

Update the VERSION argument value. Or, use the … syntax
to tell CMake that the project requires at least but has been updated
to work with policies introduced by or earlier.

Or, add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to try configuring anyway.

The version on my linux box is 4.2.3

I have tried reaching someone from the online course to help over several weeks with no response. Please, if you can help me, I would greatly appreciate it!!!

-George P.

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The CMakeLists.txt file of the project which you’re trying to configure specifies a minimum version older than 3.5, but the CMake version which you’re using (4.2.3) no longer supports versions so old.

You can try one of these:

  1. Follow the advice from the error message and add -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 to your CMake command line. That will instruct CMake to “pretend” that the file specified 3.5 as minimum. If the project is simple enough and does not rely on specific behaviour of the old CMake version, it could just work.
  2. Install a sufficiently old version of CMake so that it still supports the version specified in the project.