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MAlba3
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7 years ago

Problems for installing Quartus II Web on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Hi, I have an old Altera Board (DE2 Development and Education Board - with Cyclone II) and I am trying to install the Quartus II Web software for using it. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have downl...
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mfro
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7 years ago

You can't use current Quartus II as Cyclone II is not supported anymore. The latest version supporting the Cyclone II is 13.0sp1.

It is possible to make this old version run on current Linux installations, but it needs a little twiddling: shared libraries that come with current Linux installations are incompatible with this old Quartus II.

The easy way is to install Ubuntu 10.x in a virtual environment. The old Quartus version will run there provided the required 32 bit libraries are installed as well. The more advanced way (eliminating the virtualization performance loss) would be to "beef" up the native installation with the old shared libs (redirecting lib use with LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

It's definitively doable. I have 13.0 and 13.1 running well on a current Debian Testing system.