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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Install Quartus8,0 SP1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

I received segmentation faults constantly while running Quartus8.0 without a Service Pack on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on a 32 bit computer. The solution to this, according to Altera is installing the service pack.

The service pack has two tar.gz files in it.

ippatch.gz

qpatch.gz

A tools/ directory containing binaries for

gtar

gzip

compare

A script to install

install_patch

The service pack complains about not being able to gzip -d

Manually too, I cannot gunzip these patch files

In both cases, it complains of a crc error.

Right away it seems that the download may be faulty, but I downloaded the service pack several times to try this. It is definitely not a download issue.

The same files can be gunzipped on an Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit installation.

Has anybody come across this problem and installed SP1 successfully?

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    Altera_Forum
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    17 years ago

    My solution:

    Share the directory, Mount it on 64 bit machine, Install patch using 64 bit machine.

    [Inherently deal with various permission issues]

    # On 32-bit computer

    Change permissions to give 777 for /quartus

    sudo ./nautilus to start nautilus as root

    Right click on directory and open 'Sharing Options'

    Enter a share name, and check allow people to write to this folder

    # On 64 bit computer

    Locate the shared directory

    Mount it using smbmount

    In the script modify :

    the gtar command to just run off /bin and not the tools folder

    Replace gtar xof - with gtar xof - --no-same-owner

    Then run the script

    This worked for me. Long drawn solution. Stayed up till insane hours figuring this out.

    Kind of long drawn - but it seemed to be the only way.

    I would love to hear how somebody did this another way.
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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    now I have the "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" wrong on the fedora 12.

    how?