Quartus II on Ubuntu (collecting thoughts)

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