Cannot run the quartus 9 on CentOS 5.4

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Hi all, 

I recently changed my os from winxp to CentOS 5.4 , and I installed the quartus 9.0 on it successfully. But when key in "quartus" in terminal, the start window can be seen but disappear immediatelly, and such message are showed in terminal:   --- Quote Start ---   /opt/altera9.0/quartus/mw/bin-linux_optimized/rpcss.secure: /opt/altera9.0/quartus/mw/bin-linux_optimized/rpcss.secure: cannot execute binary file Segmentation fault   --- Quote End ---    any suggestion?  Thanks in advance  Regards

[Altera_Forum]

My first guess is that you are on a 64-bit Linux and are trying to execute 32-bit code. 

Is that true? -edj

[Altera_Forum]

running "quartus" on 64-bit machines should work fine. i suppose trying "quartus --64bit" may be worth a try.

[Altera_Forum]

you can also try removing ~/.mw and /tmp/Mw_* but i don't anticipate this fixing the problem.

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I'm sure I run the quartus 9 on a 32bit centos 5.4. 

The response of command "uname -a" just as following   --- Quote Start ---   Linux CentOS-EDA02 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5PAE# 1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:41:47 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux   --- Quote End ---    And after delete the directory "~/.mw", I got the same result as before.  Anyway, thanks for your responses!

[Altera_Forum]

until you are able to resolve the issue i would install 9.1 and run qgui (instead of quartus). qgui does not depend on MainWin which appears to be the problem.

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thks to thepancake. 

I downloaded the quartus 9.1 as you advised. But now I got another problem in the installation. When I run the install scripts in terminal, I got the response    --- Quote Start ---   If: expression syntax   --- Quote End ---   My default shell is bash and tcsh is installed. I changed the default shell from bash to csh with command chsh, but it seems like there is no any help and the problem remained.

[Altera_Forum]

I use Centos5.4(gnome).Use "install" installed,it can run, but the windows can't maximize . 

Try too use root

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No matter as normal user or root, the same response "If: expression syntax" accured when runing the install script. So I guess it's related the shell.

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dxy: try this: 

 http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd11102009_744.html   xusamuel, the shell is called on the first line of the installer script. type which csh or which tcsh and copy the path into that first line of the installer.

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I can not believe. The software is working correctly. 

After seeing your reply，i am ready to try.  First,i run the software. Even worse than before，it is very very slow. Simply do not work.  I remove the Environment Variables(set yesterday,in ".bashrc" file),it work well.  I don't know why,but I was lucky.   Thank you anyway

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--- Quote Start ---  No matter as normal user or root, the same response "If: expression syntax" accured when runing the install script. So I guess it's related the shell.  --- Quote End ---    Were you able to solve this problem? My csh is located @ /bin/csh. The first line of the script points correctly to this location, so i don't know what else to do to stop getting this "if: Expression Syntax." when i tryto run the install script.  Cheers, Leonardo.

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does it refer to a line number? i would like to check this out.

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[root@localhost Altera Software]# ls 

install ip_lic.txt literature nios2eds readme.txt tools ip license.txt modelsim_ae quartus space.txt [root@localhost Altera Software]# ./install  if: Expression Syntax. [root@localhost Altera Software]# csh install  if: Expression Syntax. [root@localhost Altera Software]# head -n 1 install # !/bin/tcsh   Any ideas?

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something strange there, it looks like its installed already. i just grabbed 9.1-linux-free and here's my ls: 

 $ ls adm.gz dev_info.txt ip_lic.txt md5sum.txt stub.csh agx_we.gz devinfo_we.gz libraries.gz perlsrc.gz stx2_we.gz aii_we.gz dsp_builder.gz license.txt qcleanup stx3_we.gz common.gz eda.gz linux.gz qdesigns.gz stx4_we.gz compare gpl_lic.txt lmf.gz qt stx_we.gz cusp.gz gtar m3k_we.gz readme.txt sys_reqs.txt cyc3_we.gz gzip m7ka_we.gz sgxii_we.gz tutorial.gz cyc4gx_we.gz help.gz m7k_we.gz sgx_we.gz version.txt cycii_we.gz install manifest.txt sopc.gz cyc_we.gz ip.gz maxii_we.gz space.txt

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and ./install opens up the install script and prompts me for install location. this is on Fedora 12.

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Forgot to mention i'm trying to install quartus 7.1 (it came along with the DE2-70 board... it supports stratix devices i intend to use, which is not the case for the webpack version).  

 The problem seems to be in this line:  if ($#argv > 0) then  I'm not a csh wiz, but it looks OK to me. Trying to use quotes around the $#argv didn't solve the problem also...

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the current script has that same line so i'm not sure that's the problem. 

 what i do know is that 7.1 is very old, i wouldn't go down that road.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Were you able to solve this problem? My csh is located @ /bin/csh. The first line of the script points correctly to this location, so i don't know what else to do to stop getting this "if: Expression Syntax." when i tryto run the install script.  Cheers, Leonardo.  --- Quote End ---    Sorry, this problem is still unsolved. I installed a clean centos 5.4 on my laptop(thinkpad x60), the same problem remained. I'll try it on an rhel 4.7 workstation after my bussiness travel.  Wish you lucky.

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--- Quote Start ---  and ./install opens up the install script and prompts me for install location. this is on Fedora 12.  --- Quote End ---   Now,I install it on the Fedora 12,and use the bash to install, and I had installed the tcsh, in yhe install process didn't any warn. But I want to use bash to open the software.it's show the ALTREA's log, and end,show that  Segmentation fault (core dumped) How to solve it???