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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Command-line quartus license installation

We're having several Linux build servers, and I'm trying to integrate quartus installation into a command-line flow to automate the install/upgrade process.

I've got quartus and device installation working. However, I cannot figure out the command to specify a license.

Specifically, I'm interested in "30-day eval period" and "specify license file location" options.

See the attached screenshot.

The only way to get this is by running "<install dir>/bin/quartus" executable, which is a GUI application and requires running X-server. Nothing else I tried seems to work: quartus_cmd, quartus_sh, etc.

Thanks,

Evgeni

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    Setting LM_LICENSE_FILE to point to a specific license file or a floating license server does work.

    However, "30-day eval period" option doesn't use LM_LICENSE_FILE. Instead, it creates a file in a user directory, for example /home/user/.altera.quartus/.cy0mkjijqke

    Thanks,

    Evgeni