Guide: Installing Quartus 17.1 & ModelSim 17.1 on Ubuntu 22

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meepowl
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Guide: Installing Quartus 17.1 & ModelSim 17.1 on Ubuntu 22

Post by meepowl »

Hi,

I recently made a post asking for advice on using alternatives to ModelSim with Quartus 17.1 because I wasn't able to get ModelSim working on Ubuntu 22, despite following various guides targeting Ubuntu 16/18.

I've since managed to get Quartus, ModelSim and the help files installed and working. Because it was a bit of a pain and I couldn't find a single set of working instructions for all three together, I've written up the process here.

Hopefully this will be helpful to anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

Thanks.

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Re: Guide: Installing Quartus 17.1 & ModelSim 17.1 on Ubuntu 22

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Could be a decent candidate for a snap.

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Re: Guide: Installing Quartus 17.1 & ModelSim 17.1 on Ubuntu 22

Post by klappschlauch »

I'm on fedora 37, and i have a quartus_setup() function in my .zshrc (should also work with bash):

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function quartus_setup
{
        VERSION=$1

    if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
            echo "missing version, reset"
            unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
            unset QUARTUS_ROOTDIR
            export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
            return
    fi

    if [ "$VERSION" = "list" ]; then
            ls -l  /home/svens/altera/
            return
    fi

    if [ ! -d "/home/svens/altera/$VERSION" ]; then
            echo "Version doesn't exist"
            return
    fi
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/svens/altera/$VERSION/quartus/linux64/
    export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=/home/svens/altera/$VERSION/quartus
    export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/linux64
}

my /home/svens/altera looks like:

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➜  ~ $ ls -l ~/altera 
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  3 svens svens 4096 Mar 12  2018 13.0sp1
drwxr-xr-x  7 svens svens 4096 Dec 29 08:55 13.1
drwxr-xr-x  9 svens svens 4096 Dec 29 08:55 17.0
drwxr-xr-x  9 svens svens 4096 Sep 26  2020 17.0std
drwxr-xr-x  9 svens svens 4096 Sep 10  2020 17.1
drwxr-xr-x  9 svens svens 4096 Dec 29 08:56 20.1
drwxr-xr-x 11 root  root  4096 Sep 26  2020 20.2pro
drwxr-xr-x 10 svens svens 4096 Dec 29 08:54 22.1

so with a simple 'quartus_setup <version>' i can switch between quartus versions.

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