Quartus II Web Edition Tips

To try to install Quartus II web edition you need to at least install dcom95 and internet explorer 6. Otherwise the installer will hang right away. With IE installed the installation starts and gets almost to the end. Then it hangs at "Registering Quartus II and installing programmer drivers" (Which have to do with their registration checks I think, or with the usb drivers for the development boards) (It could be that there is some ok box behind the main installer window, which you can't reach) You can kill the last two wine-preloader instances and then the installation finishes. Then it still hangs when you start Quartus web II See my complete attempt below: install crossoveroffice 5.0 deb export PATH=/opt/cxoffice/bin:$PATH (because I have standard wine also installed and in my path) everywhere use default installation options start cxbottlemanager make new bottle: quartus_win98 choose type win98 start cxinstallwizard install core fonts try to install quartus_ii_web failed (had to killall -9 wine-preloader) restart cxinstallwizard install dcom95 install ie6 (finishes with errorreport) install ie6 again (no error) install acrobat reader 5 finish cxinstallwizard cxreboot --bottle quartus_win98 start cxbottlemanager archive quartus_win98 bottle start cxinstallwizard install quartusii_50_sp1_web_edition_single.exe stays a very long time on: Registering Quartus II and installing programmer drivers ps -e (show all running processes) kill the last wine-preloader (no effect) kill the second-last wine-preloader (Registering Quartus II and installing programmer drivers disappears and installation continues) enable talkback installation finishes see: Unsupported_quartus_web_ii_install.log finish cxinstallwizard start Quartus Web Full from menu hangs at Initializing Quartus II ....