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Quartus II Web Edition installation problem on Fedora Core 17

Altera_Forum
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Installation has a problem: 

 

./11.1sp2_259_quartus_free_linux.sh  

Creating directory 11.1sp2_259_quartus_free_linux 

Verifying archive integrity... All good. 

Uncompressing Quartus II Web Edition (Free)................................................................................................................................................................................................... 

Welcome to Altera Software Installer 

Copyright (c) Altera Corporation 2011 

 

Nothing started up, so looking at the trace file as indicated: 

 

Traceback (most recent call last): 

File "<string>", line 14, in <module> 

File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 436, in importHook 

File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 495, in doimport 

File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 297, in getmod 

File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/archive.py", line 468, in getmod 

File "/tools/python/2.6.4/linux32/pyinstaller/iu.py", line 109, in getmod 

ImportError: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

 

My System: 

 

FC 17 beta (64-bit) on AMD64-based motherboard. Is 64-bit a problem to install Quartus II web edition?
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Altera_Forum
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sorry, just found the answer. 

 

The readme.txt says: 

 

"The Quartus II Web Edition software is only supported on 32-bit 

operating systems." 

 

but since the same document also indicated: 

 

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0/5.0 for 32-bit and for AMD64 

or Intel EMT64 64-bit CPUs 

* SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 for 32-bit and for AMD64 

or Intel EMT64 64-bit CPUs 

* CentOS 4/5 for 32-bit and for AMD64 

or Intel EMT64 64-bit CPUs  

 

Therefore theoretically it is still possible to install on 64-bit Linux. 

 

For the Fedora Core 17 (beta, 64-bit), I just have to "yum install" all the component (below) which is highlighted as "not found" like above message, and installation now went through successfully. 

 

a. sudo yum install libXt.i686 

b. sudo yum install libXext.i686 

c. sudo yum install freetype.i686 

d. sudo yum install fontconfig.i686 

 

Thanks.
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