Hello,

I have Altera Quartus II 4.0 software and I managed to successfully install
it on a Debian Linux machine (with Intel Pentium 4 processor). However,
always when I try to start the software, I will get the following messages:

        "Choose the preferred look and feel for the Quartus II software..."

I select Quartus II and click OK. After that I will get:

        "MainWin license not available -- to run the Quartus II software, you
         must specify a valid license file that contains a MainWin license."

I have searched Altera web sites and newsgroups but was unable to find out
what is this MainWin license. So does anybody know what it is, where could
I get one and how to specify the license file for Quartus?

Thanks for your advice. It would be nice if I could do finally all FPGA
development on Linux.
-- 
Miika Pekkarinen <m...@it.jyu.fi>,
Department of Math. Information Technology,
University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40014 Jyvaskyla, FINLAND

Hi Miika,

   Youu need a license file that contains a mainwin_lnx entry or something
to that effect in addition to the quartus line. You can ask your Altera FAE
or sales person to get it for you. Typically yo have got this line generated
if you had specified that you were using the Linux platform at the time of
purchasing the Quartus subscription.

Hope this helps.

- Subroto Datta
Altera Corp.


"Miika Pekkarinen" <m...@ihme.org> wrote in message
news:0tjBc.2055$F...@reader1.news.jippii.net...
> Hello,
>
> I have Altera Quartus II 4.0 software and I managed to successfully
install
> it on a Debian Linux machine (with Intel Pentium 4 processor). However,
> always when I try to start the software, I will get the following
messages:
>
>         "Choose the preferred look and feel for the Quartus II
software..."
>
> I select Quartus II and click OK. After that I will get:
>
>         "MainWin license not available -- to run the Quartus II software,
you
>          must specify a valid license file that contains a MainWin
license."
>
> I have searched Altera web sites and newsgroups but was unable to find out
> what is this MainWin license. So does anybody know what it is, where could
> I get one and how to specify the license file for Quartus?
>
> Thanks for your advice. It would be nice if I could do finally all FPGA
> development on Linux.
> -- 
> Miika Pekkarinen <m...@it.jyu.fi>,
> Department of Math. Information Technology,
> University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40014 Jyvaskyla, FINLAND
>
>
>

Miika Pekkarinen <m...@ihme.org>
wrote:
: Hello,

: I have Altera Quartus II 4.0 software and I managed to successfully install
: it on a Debian Linux machine (with Intel Pentium 4 processor). However,
: always when I try to start the software, I will get the following messages:

:         "Choose the preferred look and feel for the Quartus II software..."

: I select Quartus II and click OK. After that I will get:

:         "MainWin license not available -- to run the Quartus II software, you
:          must specify a valid license file that contains a MainWin license."

: I have searched Altera web sites and newsgroups but was unable to find out
: what is this MainWin license. So does anybody know what it is, where could
: I get one and how to specify the license file for Quartus?

Quartus is written as a Windows programm. To run it under Linux, Altera
(like Xilinx with their ISE ) have choosen to use the MainWin
libraries. They have to pay licenses for ever MainWin installation.

From what I have read above, you already have the media, probably from some
distributor. So ask the distributor for a license too. A 30 (or was it 60)
day free evaluation license is available, otherwise you have to pay.

Bye

-- 
Uwe Bonnes                b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

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