This is currently a work in progress translation of dries007's Arch install guide into a Gentoo install guide.
This guide provides an ebuild that you can use to install Quartus Prime (Lite Edition) and ModelSim 17.1 in Gentoo. This guide assumes you have created a local overlay; see this Gentoo guide on making your own overlay. Make sure that repoman is installed.
- If you don't want to go through all of the formalities of installing through portage, you can just run the shell commands; in this case it might be simpler to refer to the original guide by dries007.
- However, the advantage of installing this through portage is that the proprietary installation binary runs in portage's sandbox to install into a temporary directory, and then before the files a