Installing QUARTUS II v.13.1 bit on Rhel/centos 6 bit

http://www.digitalsolutionslab.com/installing-quartus-ii-v-13-1-64-bit-on-rhelcentos-6-64-bit/

I have been using Quartus II v.12.1 on RHEL 5 and decided that going through the installation procedure for the Quartus II v.13.1 on updated Rhel (namely Rhel 6-bit) would be a good idea. Right off the bat I can see that there are a need for this ... the ' Quick Start Guide ' given at the Altera website* are a wind OWS based start Guide. So ... here's the "How to" on a RHEL 6-bit machine.

It is assumed, which has an account with Altera and so you have access to the software download feature. If not, just sign up by clicking here. On the right hand of the page, click on the "Myaltera account" and register.

Once the download page, click on the Linux radio button, Direct download, and then on ' Combine Files ' tab. Click on The download button for the Quartus-web-13.1.x-linux.tar (where x is a given sub-version) to begin. The download time would vary depending on your connection speed.

Once downloaded, create a directory called ' software ' in your home directory and move the tar file there just to keep thin GS tidy and want to reinstall it at a later time (you can leave it on the Downloads folder, but things get messy I n there as the browser downloads everything in there. Then, extract the ' files in ' directory as yourself (not root). Note that this does not has the to is root in order to install the Altera software. However, in order to install and packages as outlined in this how-to, you'll have a super user.

Please note this before you can proceed with the installation, the following-bit packages need to be installed ... glibc. i686, libxext.i386, libx11.i386, libxau.i386, libxdmcp.i386, freetype.i386, fontconfig.i386, and expat.i386.  Some of these packages already installed, so just use the 'yum install [package-name1] [package-name2] ... [Package-namen]' command, and it'll install or update what's missing.

Once the additional packages has been installed, execute the setup.sh script (not root) in the ' Altera ' Directory of you CRE Ated earlier. I encountered the first glitch ... there is one file, which was not outlined in the "how-to" page of the website. However, it was outlined during the installation as a needed file (libstdc++-bit). Thus, I had to stop the installation at this point to ensure that this file (libstdc++) was installed. As it turns out, a dependency is installed, so no foul no harm.

Once installed, the software launched and the installation placed a short cut on the Desktop

However, I noticed the following ' error ' When the program launched ...

[Email protected] altera]$ tb2_install:error while loading GKFX libraries:libpng12.so.0:cannot open Shared Object fi Le:no such file or directory

I used the ' whatprovides ' option for the ' yum ' command ... and found that the file is not installed. I installed the file!

That's took care of it ... software has been installed!!!

Now how does the execute it from the command line?  The idea was just to type ' quartus ' at the command prompt. Well, must edit your bash_profile adding the following to the PATH ....

$HOME/altera/13.1/quartus/bin

Once added, just save it and execute the ' quartus ' command. I did so, but I got the following error:

[Email protected] ~]$ quartus:error while loading GKFX libraries:libfreetype.so.6:cannot open Shared Object File:no Such file or directory

[1]+ Exit 127 quartus

Apparently, not only is libfreetype.so.6 missing, but others as well. I would install one and then it'll tell me, there was another one missing. For any of them, I used the ' whatprovides ' option and then I installed the missing package. All the missing libraries to is able to invoke Quartus from the command line is as follow ...

Libsm.so.6, Libxrender.so.1, Libfontconfig.so.1, libxext.so.6 and libfreetype.so.6

Use the 'yum ' install [package-name1] [package-name2] ... [Package-namen] ' command as done before to install all of these libraries if they is missing in your case. If There is another package missing (your RHEL install could be somewhat different than mine) just use the ' whatprovides ' op tion as described above and then proceed to install the missing library if missing. Once the packages were installed, I was able to invoke Quartus from the command prompt. However, using only ' quartus ' at the command line gives you the-the-B version of Quartus Ii. In order to invoke the just version, add the option ' –64bit ' following the command as shown below.

[Email protected] ~]$ quartus–64bit&

And that's all folks!!! If you had questions, please feel free to post your questions below.

* There is a PDF file, gives a very good "how-to" for Linux. You must search for it in the Altera website.

Installing QUARTUS II v.13.1 bit on Rhel/centos 6 bit