Installing SoC EDS v. 14.1 on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04-- it is possible!

After much trial and error, I succeeded in installing SoC EDS version 14.1 (SoCEDSSetup-14.1.0.186-linux.run) on a 64-bit machine running Ubuntu 14.04. The Altera Soc EDS has a boatload of ...