wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

Thank you all very much this was the last step to set up the altera USB Blaster on Fedora 17 for a DE2 Board.

For those still having trouble installing on linux here is what I did to have quartus working on fedora 17:

1. Downloaded altera installer Linux Version from https://www.altera.com/download/dnl-index.jsp (I did this for quartusII v11.1)

2. Executed the downloaded script with bash

3. Followed steps in the setup GUI

4. Created the file 51-usbblaster.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d directory. With the following content:

# ALTERA USB BLASTER

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"

5. I checked that my computer identified my DE2 board by:

a) connecting the USB Blaster Cable to the computer.

b) powering the board (on RUN mode).

c) typing lsusb at a terminal/shell.

In the list of devices you should see something like:

Bus 004 Device 004: ID 09fb:6001 Altera Blaster

6. When trying to use Tools>Programmer>Hardware Setup> Add Hardware I got Attempted to access JTAG server -- internal error code 82 occurred

7. However the terminal was complaining about something else: error while loading shared libraries: libaxerces-c.so.26: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

8. I followed Hanne's advice in this forum and replaced the correct libaxerces, libicudata and libicuuc libraries for JTAG to work.

9. I found the needed libraries in: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/18961537/dir/fedora_12/com/xerces-c-2.8.0-5.fc12.x86_64.rpm.html, http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16684451/dir/fedora_5/com/libicu-3.4-6.2.x86_64.rpm.html. Although it says fedora 12 and fedora 5 it still worked for fedora 17.

10. Download and extract the RPMs. Then move the proper library files to your <quartus installation directory>/quartus/linux64 directory. (I did it using cp command in terminal)

Hope this helps!

Best Wishes,

Alvaro Naranjo