You should be able to start the quartus/bin/quartus program in the installation folder (I added a script, quartus.sh, in my ~/bin/ folder that launches the quartus binary). The Altera On-Board USB-Blaster II cable appears as Altera USB-Blaster (unconfigured) when first attached to your system. $DOWNLOADDIR/components/QuartusHelpSetup-$n \ Then repeat the process for the following two commands: $DOWNLOADDIR/components/ModelSimSetup-$n \ Check with top to see if the QuartusLiteSetup program is still running or not. disable-components quartus_help,modelsim_ase,modelsim_ae \Īfter running for a while, this may hang. tmp/quartus, ~/intelFPGA_lite/17.1 and 17.1.0.590): $DOWNLOADDIR/components/QuartusLiteSetup-$n \ to /tmp/quartus, and then run the following command (replace $DOWNLOADDIR, and $INSTALLDIR and $VER with sutitable values, e.g. Start by unpacking the Quartus installer, e.g. The solution is to run the installer in unattended headless mode (I found a tip by Jonathan here), and install the different components in separate steps. Download the source code from sourceforge (select a suitable version and tar archive).Install build-essential (to get gcc etc): sudo apt install build-essential.The simplest way is to build and install libpng12 from source (requires build-essential). The software needs libpng12, which is not distributed with Ubuntu 17.10.