Installing QuartusII and USB Blaster in Fedora 17

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Installation of Fedora 17, quartusII web edition v11.1 and DE2 Board. 

 For those having trouble installing on linux here is what I did to have quartus working on fedora 17: 1. Downloaded altera installer Linux Version from https://www.altera.com/download/dnl-index.jsp (I did this for quartusII v11.1) 2. Executed the downloaded script with bash 3. Followed steps in the setup GUI 4. Created the file 51-usbblaster.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d directory. With the following content:# ALTERA USB BLASTER SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666" 5. I checked that my computer identified my DE2 board by: a) connecting the USB Blaster Cable to the computer. b) powering the board (on RUN mode). c) typing lsusb at a terminal/shell. In the list of devices you should see something like: bus 004 device 004: id 09fb:6001 altera blaster 6. When trying to use tools>programmer>hardware setup> add hardware I got attempted to access jtag server -- internal error code 82 occurred 7. However the terminal was complaining about something else: error while loading shared libraries: libaxerces-c.so.26: wrong elf class: elfclass32 8. I followed Hanne's advice in this forum: http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33163 and replaced the correct libaxerces, libicudata and libicuuc libraries for JTAG to work. 9. I found the needed libraries in: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/18961537/dir/fedora_12/com/xerces-c-2.8.0-5.fc12.x86_64.rpm.html, http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16684451/dir/fedora_5/com/libicu-3.4-6.2.x86_64.rpm.html. Although it says fedora 12 and fedora 5 it still worked for fedora 17. 10. Download and extract the RPMs. Then move the proper library files to your <quartus installation directory>/quartus/linux64 directory. (I did it using cp command in terminal)  Hope this helps! Best Wishes, Alvaro Naranjo