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15 years ago

Quartus "export: 137 ... bad variable name" error

When launching Quartus 10.0sp1 on ubuntu 32bit, i get the following error:

/opt/altera/10.0sp1/quartus/bin$ ./quartus

export: 137: 2000.00: bad variable name

At first the quartus worked as it should but then this error started to appear, terminating some launches.

Now i can barely run Quartus 1 out of 10 or more times. Even after reinstall.

As a side note. When i was able to run quartus, it always acted as on first run (shows intro splash, recent documents empty). I does however remember the location of my license file, even after reinstall.

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    15 years ago

    my guess is a problem with dash. can you install bash and try: 

    /opt/altera/10.0sp1/quartus/bin$ bash quartus
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    15 years ago

    Thank you very much.

    Indeed, i'm able to run quartus while specifying that the bash has to be used.

    Still, it segfaults when the gui has completely loaded.
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    15 years ago

    have you tried searching the forum for Ubuntu? i recall similar reports but i'm not sure if they figured out what the problem was

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    15 years ago

    Thank you for letting me know. I did some brute mass search and one seemingly unrelated advice worked:

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    I tried removing ~/.altera.quartus/

    I also tried removing /tmp/mw_*

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    (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6064)

    Now the Quartus even remembers my recent documents. I just hope it stays that way.
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    11 years ago

    [SOLVED]: Here is how I did it.

    Assume I have my installer at "/media/data/Archives/Gadgets-Apps/de0-nano-fpga-kit/design-suite/autorun" in my Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit system.

    First issue I faced: libz.so.1 not found. Run the following command to include the mentioned path to library path, which should fix this issue.

    # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/media/data/Archives/Gadgets-Apps/de0-nano-fpga-kit/design-suite/autorun

    Second issue is the one this thread is talking about: " Quartus "export: 137 ... bad variable name" error"

    It is because of dash as default shell than bash. The following commands should fix it in Ubuntu 14.04.

    $ sudo update-alternatives --install /bin/sh sh /bin/bash 100

    $ sudo update-alternatives --install /bin/sh sh /bin/dash 200

    $ sudo update-alternatives --config sh

    While the above command prompts for default shell, select bash as default one.

    Then run the installer:# cd /media/data/Archives/Gadgets-Apps/de0-nano-fpga-kit/design-suite/autorun# ./autorun

    This should get it done!