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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Quartus 8 install in ubuntu

i have problem

my OS is ubuntu

i download

80_quartus_linux.tar

80_nios2eds_linux.tar

80_altera_installer.tar

and try sudo ./install_download

i follow step by step

but i can't install it

the problem is no space to install like the message

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Calculating disk space requirements...

The requested installation requires 7479419 kbytes.

/home/chantou/tools/linux/compare: Command not found.

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

There are only 13243124 kbytes in /opt/altera8.0/quartus.

Would you like to restart the installation? (y/n): n

Exiting Altera Design Suite UNIX Workstation Installation....

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13243124 kbytes > 7479419 kbytes

why can't install this?

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    Altera_Forum
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    17 years ago

    do you have disk quotas enabled? and is the partition, where /opt is mounted, big enough?

    i'd better not rely on the installer script telling you a value of free space. Altera officially only supports RHEL distro's. no idea, how the install scripts would work with ubuntu.
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    17 years ago

    The default "/bin/sh" shell of Ubuntu is (I believe) dash. Though most of Altera's install scripts are written generically enough to work with dash, some require bash. Since this could be the cause of the issue, I'd recommend either changing your default "/bin/sh" link to point to bash or modifying the top line# !/bin/sh in Altera's installation scripts.

    Oh, and since I've been running (successfully) on 64-bit Ubuntu since late last year, I can vouch for the fact that it does, indeed, work. 8.0 even fixes the minor X Windows issues with the QII GUI.

    Cheers,

    - Ura
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    17 years ago

    thank a lot

    shell i already change to bash use under command

    sudo rm /bin/sh

    ln -s bash /bin/sh

    in the end

    it's see a problem with 64-bits ubuntu

    i chage vesion to 32-bits

    and install sucessful
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    16 years ago

    I tried to install Quartus 7.2 on Ubuntu. I make sure the OS is 32-bit, but

    I still got the same error that my disk space is not enough. I wonder why?
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    16 years ago

    I had same problem on installing quartus 9.0.

    I resolved this problem as follow:

    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

    for enabling 32bit applications on 64bit architecture.