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ETang2
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25 days ago
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Questa - Altera FPGA Starter Edition 2025.2 (Quartus Prime Pro 25.1std) license error

Hi when i try to launch questasim i obtain : 

The SALT_LICENSE_SERVER variable is set : 

and when i run lmutil lmdiag all seems fine : 

what could be the problem ?

Thanks

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  • FvM's avatar
    FvM
    25 days ago

    Hi,

    your enviroment variable is SALT_LICENSE_FILE, must be SALT_LICENSE_SERVER

    Regards
    Frank

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  • FvM's avatar
    FvM
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    25 days ago

    Hi,

    your enviroment variable is SALT_LICENSE_FILE, must be SALT_LICENSE_SERVER

    Regards
    Frank

    • ETang2's avatar
      ETang2
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      25 days ago

      Thank you very much.

      It works fine now.

  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    24 days ago

    This page needs some updating then: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683472/25-3/and-software-license.html

    • RichardT_altera's avatar
      RichardT_altera
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      24 days ago

      I’ve provided feedback to the documentation team to correct the typo.
      Moving forward, users should use SALT_LICENSE_SERVER instead of SALT_LICENSE_FILE.

      Regards,
      Richard Tan