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14 years ago

Quartus II installation question on RedHat 5.5 x64

New install Quartus II 11.1 on RedHat Enterprise Linux Client 5.5 x64

Progress bar shoots to 100% instantly, and spit out a message box:

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Failed to register the Quartus II Subscription Edition (Paid) software. The registration executable '.../altera/11.1/quartus/bin/qreg' does not exist.

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Maybe I'm not supposed to use RedHat 5.5;

[root@localhost bin]# uname -a

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.el5# 1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Anyone seen this before, please comment,

Thanks a lot.:D

I don't have it installed yet

Just found out how to use 64-bit Quartus II modules, post link here:

http://quartushelp.altera.com/current/mergedprojects/global/install/install_pro_64bit.htm

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    Got online installation moving by using the altera_installer.external.sh

    :confused:

    But seems it's the easiest way to get it moving for my situation.
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    14 years ago

    Just got Quartus II (11.1) running on RHEL 5 x64

    Post my experience, wish it could be helpful for others

    First of all, install by using net installer (altera_installer.external.sh) which is on the top of the Quartus II download page. (side note: running standalone Quartus II subscribed .sh file, I didn't see SELinux warning at all, but complains of missing .../11.1/quartus/bin/qreg, could not more forward)

    After installation, saw quartus warning pop-ups about registration and jtag

    need to disable selinux or set it to permissible mode (security at own discretion)

    do the following:

    .../11.1/quartus/bin/# qreg --tb2id

    .../11.1/quartus/bin/# qreg --jtag

    Setup license by setting environment variable in .bashrc or .cshrc

    See http://quartushelp.altera.com/current/master.htm#mergedprojects/global/install/install_pro_specify_lm_license_file.htm (http://quartushelp.altera.com/current/master.htm#mergedprojects/global/install/install_pro_specify_lm_license_file.htm)

    After installation is done, one can turn SELinux back on, but all Quartus II *.so libraries needs to be added to allow list:

    Do this by:

    .../11.1/quartus/linux/# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t *.so"

    Note do above line strictly from the linux folder, since chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '.../altera/.../*.so' doesn't accept file name wildcard.

    Actually there is a Altera Solution ID for this: spr329499 (see Support Knowledge Base)

    Can try to start Quartus II, if you see "failed with: Internal Error: Sub-system: ATCL ... "

    set SELinux in permissible mode, reboot and test

    If your Quartus II starts when SELinux in permissible mode, repeat "chcon"

    Cheers,
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    12 years ago

    Hi all,

    From Altera websites, it seems that they only provide support for RHEL 5.0/6.0. How about sub-versions for RHEL i.e (RHEL 5.4 or RHEL 6.1)? Do they officially support these subversions if we run into errors?