Nios II SBT for Eclipse not working under CentOS 6.5

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Recently I had to start working on a workstation with CentOS 6.5 as operating system. I installed the Quartus Software, version 11.1, but the Eclipse tools for Nios II just do not open. Then I installed Quartus 13.1, but problem still persists.

Here is the output I get when executing the eclipse-nios2 -debug command from terminal:

Start VM: /opt/altera/11.1/quartus//linux/jre/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx384m
-jar /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-showsplash
-launcher /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.1.1.R36x_v20100810/eclipse_1309.so
-startup /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
-exitdata 4d0054
-product org.eclipse.epp.package.cpp.product
-Debug
-perspective com.altera.sbtgui.ui.cPerspective
-vm /opt/altera/11.1/quartus//linux/jre/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx384m
-jar /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar 
Install location:
    file:/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/
Configuration file:
    file:/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/configuration/config.ini loaded
Configuration location:
    file:/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/configuration/
Framework located:
    file:/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.6.1.R36x_v20100806.jar
Framework classpath:
    file:/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.6.1.R36x_v20100806.jar
Splash location:
    /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse_nios2/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.6.1.v201009090800/splash.bmp
Debug options:
    file:/home/cramos/.options not found
Time to load bundles: 5
Starting application: 1059

After the last line, the application never ever starts.

On the other hand, when executing the nios2-ide command, here is what I get:

/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/nios2-ide: line 17: /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse/nios2-ide: No such file or directory
/opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/nios2-ide: line 17: exec: /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/eclipse/nios2-ide: cannot execute: No such file or directory

However, that directory does not exists (I attach an image of the contents of the Nios II directory).

https://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8487

I cannot seem to get the Nios II tools running on Linux, and there is no other error message to track down. If further information about the work environment is needed, I will gladly post it here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Most problems that I hadwith Centos 6.5 linux 64-bit Quartus 12 nios2eds installations

are missing 32-bit (i686) libraries... /usr/lib/libmissings

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use

yum list whatever

to see whatever is installed

and

use

yum install whatever-is-missing

to install the missing i686 libraries.

e.g.

yum list glibc libXext libX11 libXau libXdmcp freetype fontconfig expat

I did:

yum install expat.i686

yum install fontconfig.i686

yum install freetype.i686

yum install libX11.i686

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ok... I saw the Quartus flash screen but sopc-builder can't start:(

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For me I ran

/opt/altera/12.1/quartus/sopc_builder/bin/sopc_builder

to see what 32-bit libraries are missing, I discovered libXtst.so is

missing.. so yum again

yum install libXtst.i686

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ok... saw the sopc builder flash screen but eclipse can't start :(

I got the idea from here:

http://aalonso.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/altera-quartus-2-on-fedora-11/

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yum install gtk2.i686 // need for eclipse

yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i686 // don't need

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----------- for usb blaster permission

create file

/etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules

with content

# USB-Blaster

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666"

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666"

:)

I had exactly the described problem.

yum install gtk2.i686 seems to have fixed it. Thanks!

Every tools seems to require some hidden i686 feature.