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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

help me with the installation of linux quartus!

when I installed the quartus ,and have configured it ,but as soon as it started installing ,it sent me the following message .I don't know why ,can someone help me!

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } An unexpected error occured. Aborting

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/gui_download_and_install_page", line 725, in thread_wrapper

File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/gui_download_and_install_page", line 1026, in do_installation_thread

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 529: ordinal not in range(128)

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    Altera_Forum
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    15 years ago

    thepancake, I'm using Debian & Quartus 11(build 157, iso version) and have the same problem: 

      p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }     An unexpected error occured. Aborting
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/gui_download_and_install_page", line 725, in thread_wrapper
    File "/build/swbuild/SJ/nightly/11.0/157/l32/work/installers/linux32/build/pyi.linux2/altera_installer_cmd/outPYZ1.pyz/gui_download_and_install_page", line 1026, in do_installation_thread
  UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 539: ordinal not in range(128)
    What's wrong?
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    15 years ago

    Are you installing from 32-bit or 64-bit Linux?

    I just installed version 11.0 under Ubuntu 11.04 on a 64-bit machine and it works fine. The only issue was that the installer uses 32-bit libraries, so I had to 'apt-get install ia32-libs' before that worked.

    USB-Blaster is operating fine too.

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    15 years ago

    I'm installing from 64-bit, and I've already installed ia32-libs.

    I've also changed dash -> bash.
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    15 years ago

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    I'm using Debian

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    Do you have to use Debian?

    I've had no trouble with Quartus under Centos or Ubuntu, but I've not tried Debian.

    If you wanted to test that one of these alternative OSes is Ok, download a LiveCD, mount your hard-drive Debian partitian, and install Quartus onto some temporary folder.

    If you can get it working there, then it sounds like a Debian issue.

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    15 years ago

    I had the same issue with the installation of quartus 11.0 sp1 on Debian and I found that the problem happens when there are accents in the path of the installation script. I guess that it is not a Debian related issue but happens with any other linux distributions if not also on Windows.

    To fix it, move the installation script to a folder which path doesn't have any accent and relaunch the script.

    By the way, it is not needed to make /bin/sh point to /bin/bash, but executing the installation script with bash like that :# bash 11.0sp1_quartus_free_linux.sh

    Is enough.

    Jonas