Quartus II on linux display problem

Altera_Forum · ‎12-05-2010

hi!

i have been trying to install quartus and got some problems.

at first, i could not install it because of '&' syntax error. then i tried sudo bash ./setup command and got over it. but then nothing showed up except 'If nothing shows up, or you don't have an X display' warning.

By the way, i looked up the forum but could not see the messages because of forbidden server..

any ideas?

Thank you.

Altera_Forum · ‎01-03-2011

Same problem.

Altera_Forum · ‎01-04-2011

same problem :S

help please...

Altera_Forum · ‎01-04-2011

what distribution, Quartus II version, etc. a paste of your command history would be useful too

Altera_Forum · ‎01-05-2011

If you're running this on some version of Ubuntu, the problem lies in that on Debian-based distributions, /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, which has a slightly different syntax than bash, which is what the installer scripts were written for. To work around this, do the following in a tty window:

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

and then, optionally:

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/dash /bin/sh

Best regards,

Ben