Altera Quartus II - Fedora

Quartus II on Fedora

local links: HP EliteBook 9470m (e1), Toshiba Satellite Z30B,

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History

2018-10-31: e1 - sdb6 - F28 - Quartus II 13.0 - install the web version

[tingo@kg-elitebook qtemp_0]$ pwd
/home/tingo/doc/Altera/quartusii/linux/v13.0/qtemp_0
[tingo@kg-elitebook qtemp_0]$ ./setup.sh

and away we go. Installed in /home/tingo/progs/altera/13.0sp1/ and (as usual on this machine) only the 32-bit version work, the 64-bit version crashes.

2018-10-31: e1 - sdb6 - F28 - realized I had installed the subsciption editor of Quartus II 13.0sp1. Download web version, uninstall the wrong version.

2018-07-25: e1 - sdb6 - F28 - Quartus II patch upgrade

[tingo@kg-elitebook v13.1]$ pwd
/zs/tingo/doc/Altera/quartusii/linux/v13.1
[tingo@kg-elitebook v13.1]$ ./QuartusSetup-13.1.4.182.run

and give directory as before. The install takes a long time. Afterwards, version 13.1.4.182 is in. Nothing else changed: 32-bit version works, 64-bit version crashes.

2018-07-25: e1 - sdb6 - F28 - since I discovered filesystem trouble on the sda1 yesterday, I have decided to try a reinstall of Quartus II today.

[tingo@kg-elitebook qtemp]$ pwd
/home/tingo/doc/Altera/quartusii/linux/v13.1/qtemp
[tingo@kg-elitebook qtemp]$ ./setup.sh

and the installer starts home directory: /home/tingo/progs/altera/13.1 required disk space 11412 MB the installer finishes. Testing - Quartus II 32-bit works, Quartus II 64-bit fails as before command lines

32-bit: ~/progs/altera/13.1/quartus/bin/quartus
64-bit: ~/progs/altera/13.1/quartus/bin/quartus --64bit

ok.

2018-07-17: e1 - sdb6 - F28 - dnf - install libnsl.i686, see if Quartus II (32 bit) starts then

[tingo@kg-elitebook ~]$ sudo dnf install libnsl.i686
[..]
Total download size: 79 k
Installed size: 118 k
[..]
Installed:
  libnsl.i686 2.27-19.fc28                                                                                                                                                     

Complete!

no, it also needs libSM.i686 (libICE.i686), and libXrender.i686. But then it starts! This is how I start it:

[tingo@kg-elitebook ~]$ ~/progs/altera/13.1/quartus/bin/quartus

ok

2018-07-16: e1 - sdb6 - F27 - installed Quartus II v13.1:

tingo@kg-elitebook qtemp]$ ./setup.sh

You must have the 32-bit compatibility libraries installed for the Quartus II installer and software to operate properly.

[tingo@kg-elitebook qtemp]$ tb2_install: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

not sure why it throws an error after the install is finished. test - it doesn't start

[tingo@kg-elitebook quartus]$ pwd
/zs/tingo/progs_lin/altera/v13.1/quartus

64-bit

[tingo@kg-elitebook quartus]$ ./bin/quartus --64bit
quartus: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

32-bit

[tingo@kg-elitebook quartus]$ ./bin/quartus
quartus: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

hmm, why do Quartus II look for that when we have

[tingo@kg-elitebook ~]$ rpm -ql libpng.i686
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/2f1639a0581aee6807d23836cc71f97f82d14a
/usr/lib/libpng16.so.16
/usr/lib/libpng16.so.16.31.0
/usr/share/licenses/libpng
/usr/share/licenses/libpng/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/png.5.gz
[tingo@kg-elitebook ~]$ rpm -ql libpng.x86_64
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/7537ef3d96f6e8f42d0cc428e9aeba613187fd
/usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16
/usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16.31.0
/usr/share/licenses/libpng
/usr/share/licenses/libpng/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/png.5.gz

oh well. Check what provides libpng12 then

[tingo@kg-elitebook ~]$ sudo dnf provides libpng12
Last metadata expiration check: 1:06:09 ago on Mon 16 Jul 2018 02:26:34 PM CEST.
libpng12-1.2.57-4.fc27.i686 : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provide    : libpng12 = 1.2.57-4.fc27

libpng12-1.2.57-4.fc27.x86_64 : Old version of libpng, needed to run old binaries
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Provide    : libpng12 = 1.2.57-4.fc27

ok.

2018-07-12: z30b - sda5 - F28 - installed Quartus II v13.1:

[tingo@localhost qtemp]$ ./setup.sh

You must have the 32-bit compatibility libraries installed for the Quartus II installer and software to operate properly.

qreg: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tb2_install: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

size of the installed program (I deselected some stuff)

[tingo@localhost qtemp]$ du -sh ~/progs/altera/13.1
7.8G    /home/tingo/progs/altera/13.1

ldd of ok. Quartus (64-bit) starts up and appears to work.