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9 years ago

[Newbie] USB Blaster on Ubuntu Linux Xenial (16.04) won't probe chain

Hi Folks, I'm just trying to get Quartus 16.0 (Also tried 15.1) running on my 64 bit Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 machine. I've fixed the permission/udev errors etc and can 'see' the USB Blaster....unf...
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9 years ago

OK, I'd best post the resolution to this in case someone else bumps into it. I don't lay claim to have fixed it myself, onto to have applied a little more Google-fu. The solution was actually from https://www-acc.gsi.de/wiki/timing/quartusinstallubuntu1404. Just in case that page ever disappears, it seems that the problem is due to a missing 32 bit libudev, fixed with; 

$ sudo apt-get install libudev1:i386
$ sudo ln -sf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

After this you'll need to rebuild your libs, or just reboot...then, at least in my case, all was good; 

dmarples@steal:~/bin/altera_lite/16.0/quartus/bin$ ./jtagconfig 
1) USB-Blaster 
  020F10DD   EP3C(10|5)/EP4CE(10|6)

DAVE