Installation

1. Go to Quartus download page
2. Make sure you have following options selected on download page
   Edition: Lite
   Release: 20.1.1
   Operating System: Linux
   

3. If you have fast internet

   Select combined files and click download button.

   Slow Internet

   Select Individual files and download following components

   1. Quartus Prime
   2. ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition
   3. MAX II, MAX V device support

4. Now you will be asked to login. If you already have an account on intel website, use that credentials to login; otherwise register for a new individual account.

   note

   You can use your gmail ID for new account registration.

5. Download the files as mentioned in step-3

6. Now before moving forward, run following commands on your terminal (assuming you have sudo privileges)

   • For Ubuntu 16.04

     sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

     sudo apt-get update

     sudo apt-get install libxft2 libxft2:i386 libncurses5 libncurses5:i386 libxtst6 \
       libsm6:i386 libxtst6:i386 gcc-multilib g++-multilib lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 \
       expat:i386 fontconfig:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libexpat1:i386 libc6:i386 libgtk-3-0:i386 \
       libcanberra0:i386 libpng12-0:i386 libice6:i386 libsm6:i386 \
       libncurses5:i386 zlib1g:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 \
       libxext6:i386 libxft2:i386 libxrender1:i386 libxt6:i386 libxtst6:i386 \
       \
   • For Ubuntu 18.04 and above

     sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

     sudo apt-get update

     sudo apt-get install libxft2 libxft2:i386 libncurses5 libncurses5:i386 libxtst6 libsm6:i386 libxtst6:i386 \
       gcc-multilib g++-multilib lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 \
       expat:i386 fontconfig:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libexpat1:i386 libc6:i386 \
       libgtk-3-0:i386 libcanberra0:i386 libice6:i386 libsm6:i386 \
       libncurses5:i386 zlib1g:i386 libx11-6:i386 libxau6:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 \
       libxext6:i386 libxft2:i386 libxrender1:i386 libxt6:i386 libxtst6:i386 \
       \

7. Once the file has been downloaded

   • If you have downloaded combined files, then extact the downloaded .tar file and run setup.sh file
   • If you have downloaded individual files, then make sure all downloaded file are within same directory and run QuartusLiteSetup-20.1.1.720-linux.run file

8. Follow the installation instruction and make sure to include support for MAX V devices.