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14 years ago

ubuntu 11.10 quartus install "./setup: 1: Syntax error: "&" unexpected"

FWIW, I ran into this installation script failure when installing the quartus 11.1 sp2 into ubunto 11.10. bash 11.1sp2_259_quartus_free_linux.sh Creating directory 11.1sp2_259_quartus_free_li...
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13 years ago

FWIW, now I am installing Altera 12.0 into Ubuntu and there are problems which the above workaround doesn't address (the installer GUI seems to be unable to find the Altera installer files).

This time my workaround was to edit altera_installer.external.sh

line 11 before:

script="./setup"

line 11 after:

script="bash ./setup"