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13 years ago

niosII-ide not working in 12.0 (Linux)

Hi! I have a problem with the newest release of QuartusII/NiosII-IDE (12.0). I run Ubuntu 12.04 and I've gotten both Quartus and the Usbblaster programmer working, but I can't seem to get the n...
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13 years ago

I made some progress on this and now have the system running... it is rather ugly, but it works.

Turns out I was trying to run the wrong executable, when I tried to run: 


$ altera/12.0/nios2eds/bin/eclipse/nios2-ide

instead, I got some more helpful error messages. Since I'm running a 64-bit system, I was missing some 32-bit gtk libraries.

I installed (64-bit Ubuntu 12.04): 


$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 libxtst6:i386

Running nios2-ide still raised a TON of errors, but at least the program started, and is functioning properly (I can compile code and download to my DE2-115).

...still, this should work out of the box. Alteras linux releases are not exactly optimal...