Package Details: quartus-free-questa 23.1.0.991-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/quartus-free.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: quartus-free
Description: Quartus Prime Lite - Questa-Intel FPGA Starter Edition
Upstream URL: http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=lite
Keywords: altera fpga intel quartus
Licenses: custom
Submitter: mabl
Maintainer: gbs
Last Packager: gbs
Votes: 21
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2012-12-20 19:49 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-02-02 23:17 (UTC)

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bliedblad commented on 2019-01-26 22:30 (UTC) (edited on 2019-01-26 22:45 (UTC) by bliedblad)

Found solution to NiosII SBT not opening here.

Steps to fix:

cd <install_dir>/quartus/linux64
sudo mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.quartus_distrib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6

bliedblad commented on 2019-01-14 18:21 (UTC) (edited on 2019-01-26 22:46 (UTC) by bliedblad)

Was able to install using tip from epozzobon on how to increase /tmp size; however, needed to sim-link "/tmp/pamac-build" rather than "/tmp/yaourt-tmp-$USER".

Quartus runs, but I have two issues:

  1. Cannot add a PLL in Platform Designer (QSys). Item added, wizard loads, but item removed when wizard closed.

  2. NiosII Software Build Tools for Eclipse loads, but vaporizes after workspace path selected. Can't locate log file in workspace, so no other info here.

Anyone else have these issues?

binaryshadow commented on 2018-11-06 18:05 (UTC)

Fail compile lib32-tkimg: checking for Tk configuration... configure: error: Can't find Tk configuration definitions. Use --with-tk to specify a directory containing tkConfig.sh

alexbrinister commented on 2018-11-05 18:45 (UTC) (edited on 2018-11-05 19:09 (UTC) by alexbrinister)

The default group in the udev rules for the USB Blaster (plugdev) does not exist on Arch Linux. Instead of creating a new group just for Quartus, I replaced the MODE and GROUP entries with TAG+="uaccess". Patched 51-usbblaster.rules available here: https://pastebin.com/2q2Kx3Tn. As I understand it, the uaccess tag gives access to all users with a session. I'm not sure if this is the desired behavior for everyone. It seems to be the default behavior in systemd for most USB devices.

SethGower commented on 2018-11-02 17:41 (UTC) (edited on 2018-11-02 17:42 (UTC) by SethGower)

I was installing this, and I noticed that there was an error (at least for me) in the modelsim-ase.desktop file. When I ran modelsim from rofi drun, it wouldn't launch until I appended -gui to the end of the exec command. Here is my new file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition
Comment=ModelSim simulation software for Altera FPGA's
Exec=/opt/altera/18.1/modelsim_ase/bin/vsim -gui
Icon=/opt/altera/18.1/modelsim_ase/modesim.gif
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development

luchianmihai commented on 2018-10-24 14:24 (UTC) (edited on 2018-10-24 14:38 (UTC) by luchianmihai)

Does anyone encountered this problem? I have resized the /tmp/ folder to 50G and problem persists.

As a detail, while extracting install binaries, 8G of RAM and 10G of SWAP memory is used (all of it).

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    Quartus-lite-18.1.0.625-linux.tar ... Passed
    quartus.sh ... Passed
    quartus.desktop ... Passed
    modelsim-ase.desktop ... Passed
    51-usbblaster.rules ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting Quartus-lite-18.1.0.625-linux.tar with bsdtar
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
Notice: Requires around 34GB of free space during package building!
Extracting install binaries and scripts from downloaded tar...
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-tinnedkarma/aur-quartus-free/./PKGBUILD: line 42:  9628 Killed                  DISPLAY="" bash ./setup.sh --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui none --accept_eula 1 --installdir "${pkgdir}${_alteradir}"
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build quartus-free.

gbs commented on 2018-09-29 11:08 (UTC)

dzamlo: fortunately, neither workaround is needed anymore since Intel has fixed the installer in version 18.1. I have thus reverted to calling it directly.

dzamlo commented on 2018-09-28 15:49 (UTC)

It seems that the absence of the eclipse based IDE is an issue with this package.

I modified the PKGBUILD to use the installers instead of the installFiles.tcl script. The solution I implemented to workaround the deadlock issue is to regularly check the installer log file to detect the end of the installation. Whe the installation is finished, I kill the process and continue.

I've done that in quick and dirty way, for example I didn't removed the tcl script. You can find the result here: https://gitlab.com/dzamlo/quartus-free-archlinux-package

I've not tested that extensively yet, but this seems to work.

dzamlo commented on 2018-09-27 22:35 (UTC)

I installed this package and cannot find the eclipse based IDE to develop for the Nios processor that is supposed to be part of Quartus.

I tried to find it in the package to no avail.

Is this an issue on my end or is this an issue with this package ?

epozzobon commented on 2018-09-19 09:05 (UTC) (edited on 2018-09-19 09:09 (UTC) by epozzobon)

If you are getting errors like components/QuartusLiteSetup-18.0.0.614-linux.run: Write failed you might not have enough space in your /tmp/ directory (usually mounted in RAM)

To solve this, create a symlink to a partition that has enough free space before building:

rm -rf /tmp/yaourt-tmp-$USER
mkdir ~/tmp
cd /tmp/
ln -s ~/tmp yaourt-tmp-$USER