Installing Quartus on Linux

There is no Web version for Linux and as I know no plan for it. The possibility you have is to use the 30 days trial, but is you are not planning to buy the lincense I really do not recomend you to do that. Because you are using a not supported Linux, you may have some work on installing it and your use will be limited for 30 days, I think the work you will have may not pay the time you are going to have using it.

What problems were you having on Windows? I also prefer Linux, but sometimes, I think that's best to start using it while you still have Windows and learn more on Linux before making this change.

Thank you for you suggestion.

I've been using Quartus II on windows in the past three years.

I do need linux to take some advantage of software development. Any IDE is find under linux and some said it's super under linux, haven't found out yet.

I'm trying to install Quartus II (7.1) on Ubuntu 7.04, but when I try to run the GUI (in altera7.1/quartus/bin/quartus), it seg faults without giving any meaningful error messages.

Has anyone else experience this, and perhaps found a solution?

The same version of Quartus II ran on Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 (with some minor problems if you went into certain menus).

Hi

My experience with installation of quartus 7.1 on feisty fawn(Ubuntu 7.04):

00) before everything you have to install tcsh and csh.

01) cd /bin

02) mv csh chs_

03) ln -sf tcsh csh

04) cd your_quartus_installation_files

05) ./install

06) cd your_devinfo_installation_files

07) ./install

08) cd /bin

09) ln -sf bash sh

10) export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=your_quartus_path

11) cd your_nios2eds_installation_files

12) ./install

13) cd /bin

14) mv csh_ csh

15) ln -sf dash sh

16) edit /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules and add to the end of this file :

# Altera USB-Blaster

BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666", SYMLINK+="usbblaster"

where :

your_quartus_installation_files is the path for quartus installation files

your_devinfo_installation_files is the path for device informatioin installation files

your_quartus_path = path where you've installed quartus

sometimes, for run quartus, I've to call it twice for get working.

If you get segmentation fault, try to remove your ~/.altera.quartus

Great Isaac,

Great tutorial for Ubuntu, i will keep a copy of it :-) .

How are the projects in UFCG? And the design house that was going to be created there? Is it running? I have to make a visit to your lab soon.

Hello Edwin!!! Our work in UFCG now is more hard.

We will implement a new project that is really very complex.

We are working in the DH-CENTENE(the new Design House on Recife-PE) together the group there.

You will go to the SBCCI in this year? We wait for you in our lab or SBCCI.

Hi,

Thanks for the instructions. I followed them exactly, but I'm afraid I still get seg faults every time I try to run the GUI (even after removing ~/.altera.quartus).

Cheers,

Seumas

Try to remove all references of quartus in /tmp of your system.

Sometimes this files cause seg fault.

Did you start the "lmgrd" license server?

For quartus debug mode, try this in a terminal :

export LD_DEBUG=files

and run quartus for more detail

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I'm trying to install Quartus II (7.1) on Ubuntu 7.04, but when I try to run the GUI (in altera7.1/quartus/bin/quartus), it seg faults without giving any meaningful error messages.

Has anyone else experience this, and perhaps found a solution?

The same version of Quartus II ran on Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 (with some minor problems if you went into certain menus).

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I have had this same problem. I have tried blowing away the .altera.quartus file and still have the problem also. I loaded it with LD_DEBUG=file and have found that it dies right after opening the /lib/libnss_mdns4.so.2 library.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to get around this?