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14 years ago

Quartus II 9.1sp2 on Ubuntu 12.04

Hi, I need to install QII v9.1 sp2 on my Ubuntu due to compatibility problems with college, which has v9.1sp2. I downloaded the linux installer from the altera website https ://www a...
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14 years ago

By "default shell" you mean your user shell I assume? The problem is that the installation script uses /bin/sh, assuming incorrectly that it is always bash. But on Ubuntu, /bin/sh now points to dash and the installation failed.

AFAIK Altera still hasn't fixed this, so you can try either to edit the script to make it use /bin/bash, or change your /bin/sh so that it points to bash.