Fill out the boxes on the page (the NIC ID is shown on the License Setup page in Quartus) and accept the offer of a free Modelsim license (if you want it, that is). Select "Connect to the Altera Licensing Centre". Select Tools, then License Setup again, then click Web License Update. Select "Internet Connectivity", then enter "/usr/bin/firefox" in the "Web Browser box. When Quartus starts, go to Tools, License Setup. Run this command, either in the shell or a Ctrl-F2 (Run Application) window: /opt/altera/10.0/quartus/bin/quartus Now you can (optionally) run Quartus to set up the licence. opt/altera/10.0) for sake of convention - I have Xilinx ISE installed into /opt/Xilinx/VERSION, with a startup shell script in /opt/Xilinx).
ALTERA USB BLASTER UBUNTU INSTALL
I usually install it in /opt/altera/VERSION (i.e.
Follow the on-screen instructions to install Quartus. Now we need to zap the X11 library that Quartus comes with, thus forcing it to use the system libraries. Once the self-extracting archive has finished unpacking itself (this takes a VERY long time, be patient.), you'll be left with a directory called '10.0_quartus_free_linux'. This will unpack the files necessary to run the Quartus Installer, but won't run the installer. (thanks to Josy Boelen for the correction) Now open a shell and 'cd' into the directory in which you saved the Quartus installer. Grab the installation archive from Altera's website (10.0_quartus_free_linux.sh). This has the unfortunate side effect of utterly breaking the installation on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. I'm an Icarus Verilog man, myself :) Installing QuartusĪltera seem to have taken the strange step of including X11 libraries with the Quartus installation package. sorry about the mistake!I've also added some stuff on installing ModelSim, if you swing that way. This should resolve any permissions issues you folks might have noticed. I've added a few sections on the USB Blaster and ByteBlaster programmers.