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14 years ago

Installation fails on Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04

Hello Installation of Altera Quartus 10.01sp1 fails on Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 x64. The installtion log: ---------------------------------------------- Date :Mon May 2 01:37:01 2011 Sys...
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14 years ago

That particular error:

export: 137: 800.000: bad variable name

(the number in place of 800 may be different) is not related to the shell in use.

It's a bug in qenv.sh at line 137, which manifests itself when there are CPU cores running at different frequencies. For example, a laptop with something like SpeedStep might adjust core frequencies independently according to the system load. Thus, this error will occur at random, and is not limited to the process of installation; it does happen during normal operation too.

The variable which is set at line 137 is actually never used, so the best way to fix this error is to delete this line or comment it out. After installation, the file is at .../quartus/adm/qenv.sh. I heard it might get fixed in 11.1 or thereabouts.