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14 years ago

Quartus II on Ubuntu (collecting thoughts)

Hi, Guys,

Just managed to get Quartus II installed on my RHEL x64 legit copy.

Soon enough found myself in needs of commonly used tools:

Git, wireshark, hex, giggle, fwbackup...

Although have started using Fedora EPEL extra packages, maybe sooner or later I will have to move to newer OS so to benefit from new tools.

How is Quartus II working with Ubuntu?

Please share your painful or joyful bit with me, thanks,

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

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    How is Quartus II working with Ubuntu?

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    I have it installed under 11.04 and 11.10.

    I vaguely recall needing to use

    sudo bash ./<installer>

    To get things to work ...

    Cheers,

    Dave
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    14 years ago

    Quartus works fine on Ubuntu. There's a couple of issues with the installation however.

    Most are due to the fact that Ubuntu uses dash instead of a true SH shell.

    So you need to change the link in /bin for sh from /bin/dash to /bin/bash to get the script working correctly.

    Also I had in apt-get install csh at one point for some other scripts that it was using.

    The other issue is with getting the usb-blaster to work correctly, but there's docs on here and the altera wiki that talks about that as well.

    The only real problem I have (which is a Quartus linux issue in general, not just running under ubuntu) is that it doesn't support the USB dongles for licensing. So you have to have a floating license or a license locked to the node of your machine Mac address.

    Pete