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14 years ago

Install of Quartus failing on XP SP3

I downloaded the web edition of Quartus II v11.0 and ran the installer. After unpacking into d:\altera_temp I requested the main install to go into d:\altera\11.0 Most of the installation ...
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14 years ago

I've eventually managed to work around this problem as follows.

  • Complete the failed installation as above. This leaves you with a non-functioning installation (indeed Quartus will try to start at the end of the process, and die horribly).

  • Go to the main install directory (d:\altera\11.0 in my case) and manually unpack any .z7 files that are left there using 7-Zip file manager. (Delete the final element off the offered path, ie use d:\altera\11.0 as the path to which to extract the files)

  • Fix the installation by going to the new Altera entry in the start menu and selecting Modify Altera Complete Design Suite (probably the only entry)

  • select the items you wanted installed and re-run the install.

  • this time it will complete correctly.