QuartusII 10.0 installation problem

Hello all,

I am using AVG also and have the same problem everyone is describing, but nplttr's installation solution seems to have worked:

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I tried the command line installation and did:

>cmd

>cd C:\...\Temp\10.0_quartus_free_windows\altera_installer\bin

>altera_installer_cmd.exe --target=c:\altera\10.0 -s C:\...\Temp\10.0_quartus_free_windows --install=quartus_free -w

in the c:\altera\10.0 directory the quartus directory and the following files appear: altera_installer.log bin.zip common.zip designs.zip ip.zip others.zip

This installed the software but no devices are installed.

I'll post again as soon I manage to solve this

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I had numerous problems to get this to work, however. After multiple reboots and cleaning of failed installation files and directories (including the toggling of AVG), it finally worked, and I'm not sure what caused it to finally run correctly (the command would be executed, but the terminal window would open up and immediately close without doing anything). Eventually it stayed open for a good 20 minutes and when I checked the directory it was now over 3 Gigs as opposed to the previous 50 MB from the altera_installer. Quartus started up fine afterwards.

I am now trying to get the device packages installed, and I'm having trouble. I tried running the altera_installer gui like nplttr suggests, but it now isn't connecting to the internet, and the Next button on the wizard is grayed out when I try to select the directory of the unpacked files. I tried running the command line instructions Stewart Little suggested but quartus_sh isn't a recognized command (I believe I might have gotten lost somewhere, I'm sure there's a command line way to do this).

Any other suggestions or advice? Thanks in advance