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18 years ago

Quartus II 7.x after upgrade of Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.04

I have been running Quartus II 7.x successfully on a machine running Ubuntu 7.04. Yesterday I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and ran in to some problems running Quartus.

First of all the command asrch was not found, solved by adding a script called arch containing uname -m.

After this the command getpid is missing: 

$ quartus
getpid: Command not found.
quartus: Command not found.

getpid is normally not a command, but a C function or maybe perl or similar. Is there anyone that knows who is calling getpid and which package that might be missing?

/ Joakim

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    18 years ago

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    After this the command getpid is missing: 

    $ quartus
getpid: Command not found.
quartus: Command not found.
    getpid is normally not a command, but a C function or maybe perl or similar. Is there anyone that knows who is calling getpid and which package that might be missing?

    / Joakim

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    It is possible that your rc.local got messed up. Try re-entering values in rc.local for Quartus installation.
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    18 years ago

    Thanks for your help, but what am I supposed to put in rc.local?

    Unforunately I didn't install Quartus myself from the beginning so I don't know too many details. Where can I find the best instructions?

    Most of the documents I can find on the internet expains how to get the licensing to work, by e.g. editing rc.local. But we are using a licence server on a different machine. In that case I thought it would be sufficient to have the env variable LM_LICENCE_FILE point to the server.
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    18 years ago

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    Most of the documents I can find on the internet expains how to get the licensing to work, by e.g. editing rc.local. But we are using a licence server on a different machine. In that case I thought it would be sufficient to have the env variable LM_LICENCE_FILE point to the server.

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    Irrespective of the licensing, you still have to modify rc.local during Quatus II installation. The wiki has information on that.
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    18 years ago

    I'm neither using licensing or the jtag tools so I can't see what the changes in rc.local should be good for. It's a multi user mashine so I would like to do as few changes as possible.

    Anyway, I think that I found the reason for my problem. I'm running a 64-bit kernel and it could not execute $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/linux/quartus. (All files in $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/bin is apparantly the same script executing files in $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/linux)

    The solution was to install the package ia32-libs which probably disappeared during the upgrade of Ubuntu. 

    
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs