Launch Problem

Altera_Forum · ‎10-16-2016

I need to run Quartus II v9 for a class I'm taking so I downloaded it, installed csh, ran the install script. But, when I tried to run it, I got this


$ pwd
/opt/altera9.1sp2/quartus/bin
$ ls 
altgx_diffmifgen  jtagd      qcmd         quartus_cmd  quartus_g2b   quartus_pow  quartus_smew  tb2_install
altgx_mifgen      mif2hex    qmegawiz     quartus_cpf  quartus_jbcc  quartus_rpp  quartus_sta   tclsh
clearbox          mwcleanup  quartus      quartus_drc  quartus_jli   quartus_sh   quartus_staw
dmf_ver           mwcontrol  quartus_asm  quartus_eda  quartus_map   quartus_si   quartus_stp
jtagconfig        pll_cmd    quartus_cdb  quartus_fit  quartus_pgm   quartus_sim  quartus_tan
$ ./quartus
quartus: /opt/altera9.1sp2/quartus/linux/libuuid.so.1: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6)
quartus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1: undefined symbol: _XGetRequest

I am using Xubunutu 16.04 (Ubuntu 16.04 with XFCE desktop)

I don't understand that error nor have any idea how to fix, any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Rodrigo Martín del Campo Alcocer

Altera_Forum · ‎10-21-2016

The official supported Linux versions for Quartus II v9 are SUSE 9 or 10, Redhat 4 or 5 and CentOS 4 or 5. The problem with binary installs under Linux is that if there is a too strong difference between the OS libraries and what the application expects you will get that sort of errors. The error message you get could come from a conflict between some X11 libraries from ubuntu and some that Altera brought with Quartus but I'm not sure. Also note that Quartus 9 for Linux is 32-bit only so if you have a 64-bit OS installed you need the 32-bit X11 compatibility libraries correctly installed.

I remember back in the day we installed Quartus II 9 on Ubuntu 10 and it was still a pain, especially with the JTAG drivers IIRC. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble with either installing a supported version of Linux (could be in a virtual machine) or try a more modern version of Quartus (I'm not sure Ubuntu is supported even in the newer versions of Quartus, but some people probably managed to do it anyway).