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15 years ago

Using Quartus and Nios IDE with Ubuntu 10.04

Hello, I have made some tries to use Altera tools on the new Ubuntu release : Lucid (10.04). Even if it's a beta version, I think you will have some troubles with the official release. Her...
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15 years ago

While I was not able to use the main GUI installer program using sudo bash 10.0sp1_quartus_free_linux.sh I was able to run command-line install with the directory extracted before the library error. On Lucid 64bit:

cd /tmp

sudo bash ~/Downloads/10.0sp1_quartus_free_linux.sh

(extracts directory but fails to run after that)

cd 10.0sp1_quartus_free_linux

sudo bash ./setup -w --install=quartus_free --source=/tmp/10.0sp1_quartus_free_linux --target=/opt/altera/quartus

It does seem important to call bash, using sh instead by habit gave some script syntax error about an ampersand character.

This was all with the current version (as of today) linXi.si.6.1.0 installed, not going back to 6.0.0.

bash ./setup --help gives other flags and install product names to try for your needs. I imagine the subscription install would work the same as this.