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16 years ago

problems with installing quartus II on fedora 12

Hi

When I try to install the cd Altera complete design suite version 7.2 for UNIX and Linux, which comes with the cyclone II starter development kit,

First I copy the cd to the my home directory and then run the installation and after the setting I get this error:

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Calculating disk space requirements...

The requested installation requires 6168000 kbytes.

/home/anquegi/altera_install/tools/linux/compare: Permiso denegado.

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You do not have enough disk space to install the requested items.

There are only 47781308 kbytes in /altera.

and 6'168'000 kbytes < 47'781'308 kbytes but I cannot install,

what should I do?

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    16 years ago

    A couple thoughts:

    1. Are you running the installer as root?

    2. Have you considered downloading the latest version of Quartus (9.1) from the Altera website instead of using an old version?
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    16 years ago

    My advice, also, is to try a more recent version. The old versions didn't play very nicely with versions of Linux other than those specified as supported (a lot of the problems had to do with assuming deprecated behaviors of utilities like head, which only existed as backwards compatibility features of the "enterprise" distros). Your problem here looks like you don't have the permissions to run one of the included utilities (were x permissions stripped off when you did the copy?), so it thinks you have no disk space because it can't interpret the response.

    I've had to edit Altera's install scripts for reasons like the aforementioned head issue in the past, so you may want to take a closer look at what the install script is doing. In this case, make sure you have permissions to execute everything in /home/anquegi/altera_install/tools/linux (and really, you should be installing as root anyway like the previous poster suggested).

    Failing that, use a newer version; they're generally better as time goes on. 9.1 actually behaves rather nicely on Linux, whereas I've found the GUI behavior to be downright painful on previous versions; for one thing, they're actually using native graphics libraries (Qt) now as opposed to the awful Windows compatibility layer they used to use (MainWin).
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    16 years ago

    Though I should also point out that I had no luck getting the web installer to run on Ubuntu (it's not explicitly supported, so I can't complain too much). Downloading the large archives and running the command-line installer worked.

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    16 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    A couple thoughts:

    1. Are you running the installer as root?

    2. Have you considered downloading the latest version of Quartus (9.1) from the Altera website instead of using an old version?

    --- Quote End ---

    First of all THANKS for your answers and your time kevin and fraveydank

    1) yes

    2) you are rigth and also Franveydank, so this afternoon I download quartus 9.1 for linux the large file (1.7 GB) and finally I can install it but now i have this error on running quartus II,

    from libsuuid.so.1 it says that cannot find version for this library
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    16 years ago

    I installed the quartus 9.0,and got the "segmentation fault "message,you met the problem?when lanuch it.