Altera Quartus 4.2 Service Pack 1 fails to install

Hello Jedi, Quartus II 4.2 allows for multiple installations to co-exist on a computer. Prior versions of Quartus II i.e 4.1 and earlier allowed only a single installation to exist on a computer at any one time. When you install multiple versions of Quartus II 4.2 you are prompted to give each installation a name for identification purposes. The default name for the second copy is Quartus II 4.2 (2nd Copy) and this is echoed for the user to change if desired.

At the time of installing Quartus II 4.2 SP1 (Subscription Version) you will be prompted to select which of the different installations of Quartus 4.2, the Service Pack should be installed in.

This process is checked out as part of the QII 4.2 Software release verification process, and just to be sure once more I tried it once more using the download from

Therefore if you have a specific problem, please describe whether you had given your installations diffrent names, and whether you were prompted to choose between the different Quartus II 4.2 installations when the Quartus II 4.2 SP1 executable was run.

Subroto Datta Altera Corp.

Installed a 2nd copy of Quartus 4.2 but it still fails to find any installation. Just keeps telling:

"Quartus 4.2 Full Version is not isntalled on this machine."

I haven't given a different name during Quartus installation. And the directories are located as normal in c:\altera\quartus42.

So what does it look for exactly? Environment settings?

rick

Hi Rick,

Something is not adding up. If you installed Quartus II 4.2 twice into the directory c:\altera\quartus2, did you uninstall QuartusII 42 the first time before installing a second time. If you did not uninstall this may have confused Installshield, and the registry settings that it makes to detect the multiple selections. I do not have the registry locations in front of me, but do send me your email and I can have someone contact you on Monday to help you with this.

In the meantime try to uninstall Quartus II 4.2 using the Quartus II 4.2 Uninstall, Repair or Modify command from the Start->Altera->Quartus II 4.2 Uninstall, Repair or Modify command. This may or may not work if the registry settings that describe the Quartus locations are mixed up. If this command works try installing a new version of QII 4.2 in a separate directory e.g. d:\quartus42 and then install the SP1 service pack.

Hope this helps, Subroto Datta Altera Corp.

"Installed a 2nd copy of Quartus 4.2 but it still fails to find any installation. Just keeps telling:

"Quartus 4.2 Full Version is not isntalled on this machine." I haven't given a different name during Quartus installation. And the directories are located as normal in c:\altera\quartus42. So what does it look for exactly? Environment settings?

rick"

Removed all Altera software and deleted all registry settings... After installing Q4.2 SP1 still complains...

Have already an open service request there...

That must be under Windows. I have all the following versions installed under Linux:

quartus2-2.1 quartus2-2.1sp1 quartus2-2.2 quartus2-2.2sp1 quartus2-2.2sp2 quartus2-3.0 quartus2-3.0sp1 quartus2-3.0sp2 quartus2-4.0 quartus2-4.0sp1 quartus2-4.1 quartus2-4.1sp2 quartus2-4.2

I guess the problem under Windows is the global registry.

Petter

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Yes Petter, I meant the Windows platform, in my initial reply.

- Subroto Datta Altera Corp.

Okay..no answer yet from Altera support...probably never will be (o; At least before they answered with "contact your local FAE" (o;

rick

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