Unable to run SoCEDSSetup-14.0.0.200-linux.run install app.

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I am unable to run SoCEDSSetup-14.0.0.200-linux.run, this is on an ubuntu 3.2.0-63-generic-pae# 95-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 15 23:26:11 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux. 

I have chmod +x to the file and I am root. The error is "cannot execute binary file"  Has anyone else had this porblem and how was it resolved?  Thanks

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found to be a 64bit/32bit problem, dropped back to previous release

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So you dropped back to 13.1 ??? 

I have a same problem. I just install xubuntu 14.04 64 bit only because of this and now I am facing 32bit lib dependency problems :/

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I tried 13.1, and it still does not work. The file does not even open. 

 Any ideas?

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I have done some tryouts and what worked for me was: 

13.1 on Xubuntu 12.04 32bit 14.0 on Xubuntu 12.04 64bit 14.0 on Xubuntu 14.04 64bit  An as you said $chmod +x <file> and than sudo ./<file> And what was output from 13.1 on your machine?

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For Linux you really need to check the install instructions. There are several libraries that are not installed in Linux by default that the Altera tools need. I think they have to do with running 32 bit apps built for older versions. Also, I don't think Ubuntu is a supported Linux distro for the Altera tools although I've heard that people have gotten it to work. I personally use Centos (based on redhat) and the tools work fine.

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If you would like to use Ubuntu based distro with Altera 14.0 and above, I would reccommend 12.04 64bit because you are able to install ia32-libs package (has been replaced by lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 from Ubuntu 13.04) and you get all you need basically. Otherwise you have to install all missing packages by  

$ sudo apt-get install package:i386 And at the end of installation you should get a listing if you are missing some of the libraries.

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I installed Ubuntu 12.04 over 6 mo. ago using instructions from http://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd131gettingstartedyocto#obtaining_yocto_source_package and it went smooth as cream, including sudo apt-get install ia32-libs. Now trying to setup new laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 (as stated on the aforementioned Rocketboards page, so I assume it is supported by Altera tools Galfonz) using the same rocketboard instructions - this time sudo apt-get install ia32-libs is not available. As a result, SoCEDSSetup-14.1.0.186-linux.run does not run. 

 I tried sudo apt-get install package:i386, but get 'unable to locate that package'. If anyone knows what to try next I would appreciate it.

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Seems strange. I know it's matter of course but are you sure you installed 64bit version??? Otherwise try to search why are you not able to install 32bit libraries.

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Did a complete reinstall of 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04, just in case with all my messing around some wires got crossed. 

 Verified it is 32 bit from >Settings  Installed the update, upgrade, etc. listed under Getting Started with Yocto - Ubuntu 12.04 on the RocketBoard.org page (http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd131gettingstartedyocto)  Did not install the ia32-libs, because as I understand it, it is only needed for 64 bit installs  Downloaded the the SoC EDS. Comes as a .run  Did a chmod +x, on it, tried to run, (i.e. ./SoCEDS ...), get a "cannot execute binary file"  Tried >sudo ./SoCEDS...run , got Syntax error: "(" unexpected  From what I can Google, the "(" Syntax error has something to bash vs. dash, so I ran  >sudo bash ./SoCEDS...run, and I get "cannot execute binary file"  Did a few permutations, i.e. sometimes with ,/, sometimes no sudo, always with bash, but result always "cannot execute binary file".  Redid the first few install steps - no difference, because everything already was installed.   Tried to install ia32-libs, but would not install ... which I expected. Same with package:i386  Most searched responses have chmod +x fixing the issue. I ran >ls -l and saw that the file attributes had x set. (-rwxrwxr-x)  Any advice most appreciated.

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--- Quote Start ---  Did a complete reinstall of 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04, just in case with all my messing around some wires got crossed.  Verified it is 32 bit from >Settings  Installed the update, upgrade, etc. listed under Getting Started with Yocto - Ubuntu 12.04 on the RocketBoard.org page (http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd131gettingstartedyocto)  Did not install the ia32-libs, because as I understand it, it is only needed for 64 bit installs  Downloaded the the SoC EDS. Comes as a .run  Did a chmod +x, on it, tried to run, (i.e. ./SoCEDS ...), get a "cannot execute binary file"  Tried >sudo ./SoCEDS...run , got Syntax error: "(" unexpected  From what I can Google, the "(" Syntax error has something to bash vs. dash, so I ran  >sudo bash ./SoCEDS...run, and I get "cannot execute binary file"  Did a few permutations, i.e. sometimes with ,/, sometimes no sudo, always with bash, but result always "cannot execute binary file".  Redid the first few install steps - no difference, because everything already was installed.   Tried to install ia32-libs, but would not install ... which I expected. Same with package:i386  Most searched responses have chmod +x fixing the issue. I ran >ls -l and saw that the file attributes had x set. (-rwxrwxr-x)  Any advice most appreciated.  --- Quote End ---    To clarify - this is with the 14.1 EDS (SoCEDSSetup-14.1.0.186-linux.run), not the 14.0 version in the title of this thread

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Installed Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit - now I can launch SoCEDSSetup-14.1.0.186-linux.run. The Quartus stuff did not install (permission issues), but I'm not interested in FPGA just yet. Found that I had to run ../(ESD_Workspace)/embedded/ds-5_installer/Install.sh after SoCEDSSetup-14.1.0.186-linux.run to complete the install (you need to run Install.sh as root). 

 Another interesting note - Install.sh would not run without errors until I accepted all the defaults. The only default I had tried to change was the location of the tools - I have a dual boot workstation and I was trying to put as much as I could in the FAT32 partition I set up for sharing (it is by far the largest). The default location is in Linux root partition (EXT4) and that seems to be required. So now whenever I run ANY script from Altera I accept all the defaults, because I suspect they don't test much other than that.

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Good to know you make it run. Strange thing is they require 64bit distro with 32bit libraries...

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as i heard only certain version of ubuntu is good to go for SOCEDS.