Fails trying to install Quartus prime on ARCH LINUX

I’ve also had issues with the installer hanging… but I was able to work around this by installing Quartus Prime Lite and Model Sim separately (using the provided installers in the

components

folder). So maybe the following might work for you, or perhaps provide more debug output than the GUI installers that just hang.

Before installing, I created the final install directory manually (just in case the installer complained about the directories not already being there):

$ mkdir -p "/home/${USER}/altera_lite/16.0/"

Now, go to the setup directory (contains

setup.sh

), enter the

components

directory, and try running the installers there separately, and without any GUI, as shown below (make sure to change the version numbers as appropriate):

$ cd components
$ ./QuartusLiteSetup-16.0.0.211-linux.run --mode text \
    --disable-components quartus_help,modelsim_ase,modelsim_ae \
    --installdir "/home/${USER}/altera_lite/16.0/";
$ ./ModelSimSetup-16.0.0.211-linux.run --mode text \
    --installdir "/home/${USER}/altera_lite/16.0/" \
    --modelsim_edition modelsim_ase;

Hope this helps someone out!