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13 years ago

Install Quartus 12.0 in the 64bit of Ubuntu 12.04

1.Download offline version install file and unzip it

https://www.altera.com/download/software/quartus-ii-we

2.Run command

...<your_folder>/12.0_178_quartus_free_linux/altera_installer/bin/altera_installer_gui --gui

3.Select ...<your_folder>/12.0_178_quartus_free_linux/

and Select install target folder (where you want file installed)

4.Manually install 64bit part

cd to ...<your_folder>/12.0_178_quartus_free_linux/linux_installer/quartus_free_64bit/

run install

type your install folder path

choose "n" for not delete installed files

5.Setting USB blaster

Create a new file at /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules

copy and post

# Altera USB-Blaster rule to set mode to 666. SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c"

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

6.setting QUARTUS_ROOTDIR in the shell

export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR="your quartus folder"

That's almust everything about it ....

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Enjoy & Regards,

Kqalea C

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    Hi all

    If your blaster didn't works and error message like this

    1) USB-Blaster variant [2-2]

    Unable to lock chain (Insufficient port permissions)

    Will

    You need run jtagd at root permissions

    For example that i start my quartusII by console

    sudo su

    ....../....../quartus/bin/jtagd

    ...../......./quartus/bin/jtagconfig

    it should like this

    root@#######:/home/kqalea/FPGA/quartus/bin# ./jtagd

    root@#######:/home/kqalea/FPGA/quartus/bin# ./jtagconfig

    1) USB-Blaster [2-2]

    020B30DD EP2C(15|20)

    then run su back to your account like su kqalea for example

    Blaster now nicely working for you

    Regards

    Kqalea C
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    You shouldn't need to run jtagd as root on any Linux platform.

    If it's not working then you probably got the rules wrong - please copy the file from http://www.altera.com/download/drivers/dri-usb_b-lnx.html

    If jtagd isn't working then please check the permissions on the appropriate /dev/bus/usb/<bus>/<dev> device as this is the one which jtagd will be using. You can temporarily run jtagd in a separate shell with the --foreground argument to find out which devices it's trying to open.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    Hello,

    I installed quartus on ubuntu10.04 ,its working fine.Because of some problems i changed ubuntu10.04 to ubuntu12.04,can i folow the same procedure? that means,

    1,i have given permissions like

    chmod +x 11.1sp1_216_quartus_free_linux.sh

    bash ./11.1sp1_216_quartus_free_linux.sh

    after USB blaster rules, bash./setup.

    then its working nicely.

    Now in my ubuntu 12.04 its showing like /bin/sh -> dash, instead of /bin/sh -> bash.

    Now my question is can i follow same procedure like what i did in ubuntu10.04, if not please tel me the step by step procedure.

    Thanks in advance.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    Hmm~~

    I don't really know , i hadn't try install Quartus 11.1 before

    So i don't know what's inside the installation shell script

    But I don't see any thing else can cause fail if you can install Quartus11.1 at ubuntu10.04

    Just try it ,

    Regards,

    Kqalea C
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    Hi,

    But u posted as quartus on 12.04, what about jtag, how to get jtag rules.Plz tel the procedure am very new to this .

    Thanks&Regards,

    Alex.
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    13 years ago

    1) The SYSFS keywords have been removed in latest Ubuntu's udev, ATTR is now used, so the line you have to paste in your /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules is:

    SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c"

    2) Then, after reloading the rules with:

    udevadm control --reload-rules

    3) Connect the USB Blaster

    4) Run quartus_pgm (you may have to cd into quartus' "bin" dir) from a terminal and see what it says. If it complains with something like:

    *** The Quartus II software cannot be started because the current platform,

    'linux64', does not appear to be installed in:

    Then you just have the 32 bits Quartus and to solve this it is as simple as creating a symbolic link of the "linux" folder (inside the quartus installation) called "linux64"

    5) Then running: quartus_pgm -l

    should list the USB-Blaster. Now you can program from the CLI and from the Altera Programming GUI.

    Thanks to the ones that got the udev part! Regards.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    Hi all,

    I installed correctly Quartus 12 in Lubuntu 64 bit 12.04 a few month ago, but after the last Update & upgrade in ubuntu. Now I can't execute Quartus.

    When I execute quartus.

    ~: /home/.../altera/12.0/quartus/bin/quartus

    ~:/home/.../altera/12.0/quartus/bin/quartus: line 71: /home/.../altera/12.0/quartus/linux/quartus: No such file or directory

    The quartus file exist.

    ~: ls -l /home/.../altera/12.0/quartus/linux/quartus

    ~: -rwxr-xr-x 1 ... 262662 jun 1 09:53 /home/.../altera/12.0/quartus/linux/quartus

    The line 71 that corresponds to the file launcher "/home/.../altera/12.0/quartus/bin/quartus"is this:

    eval exec "$CMD_NAME $cmd_line"

    I didn't find what program was updated in ubuntu and that prevents me from running Quartus.

    Someone had the same problem?

    Thank you very much,
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    Hi all again,

    I found the solution, it's necessary to install again ia32-libs.

    ~: sudo aptitude install ia32-libs or sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

    There is a conflict between different library files with Wine 1.5.

    The solution proposed by apt-get or aptitude is uninstall "ia32-libs".

    So should not update wine to 1.5 for the moment.

    I hope someone can be this helpful

    Regards
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    13 years ago

    When I run

    $jtagd --foreground

    I received the following error

    JTAG daemon started

    Can't bind to TCP port 1309 - exiting

    How do I check the permissions on the /dev/bus/usb/<bus>/<dev> device

    Thank you.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    12 years ago

    recently I've tried installing the software on two different machines running Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit and still seem to get errors with file not found or the installer never appearing after the extraction.

    We found that installing the ia32-libs package allows us to continue with the normal installer without running installers directly or having to download the entire ISO or larger device packages.

    Is there any plan for a pure 64-bit compatible installer?