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18 years ago

Tutorial : Installing Quartus & Nios EDS Linux in Ubuntu

Hi guys. Ive written a short tutorial on how to install Quartus II, Nios II, and Megacore IP on Ubuntu Linux. Since the Altera support is so god awful and horrible, i hope this will help some u...
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18 years ago

Actually, they dont even fully support red hat. This is because if they fully support red hat, they will use .RPM file. Also, they should support Fedora or CentOS distribution which is based on Red Hat. Red Hat is a very old distro.

Creating a .deb file is pretty easy, but i guess they dont really care about their Linux customers. But then again, creating an RPM file is just as easy, and they havent even done that.