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Last active April 19, 2018 18:21 — forked from dries007/ModelSim 17.1 for (Arch) Linux.md
Quartus Prime Light 17.1 and ModelSim 17.1 for (Gentoo) Linux

Quartus Prime Light 17.1 and ModelSim 17.1 (Starter / Free Edition) for (Gentoo) Linux

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