Honored ContributorI am thinking about installing Quartus on Linux (possibly Ubuntu or Fedora). However, both of these are not officially supported by Quartus. I was wondering:
a. is it possible to do so? b. do you guys have any tips on how to do that? (i.e. getting USB Blaster to work, ... etc).
Honored ContributorYes it is possible to do that, not recomended and not supported, but possible.
I saw Quartus running on a Brazilian University under Ubuntu and Fedora, but they had some troubles. If you want to use Quartus on Linux and can't use a RedHat or Suse, try CentOS. It has the same source code (because this source is open source) but was not built by RedHat. This is the easiest version without support to install Quartus II.Honored ContributorThanks! Although isn't Fedora also sponsored by RedHat? Well.. this might not be the right forum for this... thanks anyways!
Honored Contributorchek this link in the NIOS forum:
http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5764 Some guys have install quartus on linux (on different distribution) and give some feedback on the way they perform the installationHonored ContributorYes, Fedora is from Red Hat. But it is "Red Hat Beta", there is a lot of untested programs and libs there that are not stable and sometimes it really is a problem.
Honored ContributorInstalling is no problem at all. And you can run, but you will have trouble with USB-Blaster driver, unless you know how to hack your linux kernel.
Honored ContributorI have Quartus II 7.0 running on a Gentoo Linux box using a stock 2.6.20 kernel. As stated by others, you may run into trouble using the USB Blaster, but that's only a permissions problem.
My system uses udev for hotplug devices, so I created the file "32-altera-rules" in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory. The file looks like this: ==== Cut here ==== # udev rules file for Altera USB programming devices (udev >= 0.98) # ACTION!="add", GOTO="altera_rules_end" SUBSYSTEM!="usb_endpoint", GOTO="altera_rules_end" ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666" ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666" ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666" LABEL="altera_rules_end" ==== Cut here ==== I then found out that I also need to place a writable file called ".jtagd.conf" in my home directory for the whole thing to work, but after that things ran smoothly. Best regards, BenHonored ContributorSetting up USB-Blaster in SuSE bugged my a long time, finally I gave up and rolled back to RedHat.
I'll try btwijnst's approach on SuSE again, then put results here.Honored ContributorThanks for all the replies! One more quick question, would I need to twick the installation script to get Quartus installed in Ubuntu? I think the Niosforum referred to it, however, I did not quite understand what they were talking about.
I am somewhat of a Linux newbie... I am only moving to Linux because I heard that Nios runs faster on it and also Windows has not been kind to me. I understand that fixed-pc license is only available for Windows. Is there anyway that I can get a temporary license if I am running it on Linux? I have been running the web edition before. Seeing how Linux is gaining popularity (even Dell has agreed to put Linux on its systems) does Altera have any plan to provide similar trial licenses for Linux user?Honored ContributorI had Quartus II 6.1 on Linux with 30 days trial. But not Quartus II 7.0.
Although Altera.com announced as good for 30 days on Linux, I thought might be might problem. And post here to see if someone has the same issue. If you install Quartus II 6.1, upon starting up there are three options for you, one of them is 30 days trial.Honored ContributorI did a quick search on Altera's website and saw a solution that might help you:
http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/rd03262007_346.html I have copied and pasted the solution below: --- Quote Start --- Problem Why does my Quartus II software version 7.0 on UNIX or Linux report a license failure when I have a single license available? Solution For a compilation performed in the user interface, the Quartus® II software version 7.0 on Linux and Solaris incorrectly requires two licenses, or seats, of the "quartus" license feature. If your floating license includes a single available license seat, the software generates the following messages during compilation: Warning: Additional floating licenses for feature quartus not available -- all available floating licenses are in use Error: Current license file does not support the <device name> device Error: Quartus II Fitter was unsuccessful. 1 error, 1 warning To fix this problem in the Quartus II software version 7.0 so that each compilation requires only one license seat, download and install the appropriate patch from one of the following links: --- Quote End --- The patch can be found online. Now that's done, does someone have the updated Quartus installation script for Ubuntu?
