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18 years ago

Quartus 7.1, 6.1 Debian 4.0 ETCH Installation

Hello all, I'm a bit disappointed about Altera Linux policy. I'm a proud owner of DE2 Altera's Development and Educational board. My operating system is Debian/GNU Linux 2.6.21-1-686 ETCH 4...
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18 years ago

The work around for :arch: Command not found" is to create a file named "/bin/arch", where it contains the following:

===== Start Cut here ====

# ! /bin/bash

uname -m

===== End Cut

Then set the exec bit on the file by:

chmod +x /bin/arch

I am surprised by Altera's scripts that are still using the deprecated command arch. Altera should use "uname -m" in place of "arch".

--Joe