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Cabellan
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5 years ago

Installing Quartus 18.1 Standard on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS under WSL

Hello, I am trying to run Quartus 18.1 Standard on an Ubuntu 20.04 using Windows 10 (WSL). After doing a normal installation I try to run it and I get this: ~/intelFPGA/18.1/quartus/bin$ ./q...
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Cabellan
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5 years ago

I can't use a different version than Quartus 18.1 because of IP dependencies on a very large project.

I have tried using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in WSL, but I get the same error.

Any other ideas?

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    Cabellan
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    5 years ago

    Just for completeness, despite is is useless for me... I tried installing Quartus 19.1 in a WSL running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but I got the same result.

    I start to think it isn't that much about a particular OS or Quartus version, but about WSL doing something funny with the libraries.

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    RichardT_altera
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    5 years ago

    Could you run the Quartus 18.1std without using the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in WSL?

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      Cabellan
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      5 years ago

      Yes, running in a Virtual Box machine it works.