Altera Quartus II v11.x on Fedora 15 x64

The Altera Quartus II v11.x installer fails when attempting to install onto a Fedora 15 x64 system. There are zero error messages to indicate what is going wrong with the installation, but after a bit of snooping around I've figured out that there is a bug in the way the installer handles DNS responses - it just doesn't work correctly. The fix is to add the Altera DNS entries into your /etc/hosts files and the installer will then work correctly.

Required Packages

You will need to install the following 32-bit packages in order for the Quartus installer to run:

glibc
nss-softokn-freebl
libX11
libXext
libXau
libgcc
libxcb
fontconfig
expat
freetype
zlib
libpng
libSM
libICE
libuuid
libXrender
ncurses-libs

You can do a install using the following yum command:

yum -y install glibc.i686 zlib.i686 libXext.i686 freetype.i686 \
libpng.i686 fontconfig.i686 libsm.i686 libXrender.i686 ncurses-libs.i686

System changes

Edit your /etc/hosts and add the following hostnames:

210.0.146.40 download.altera.com
210.0.146.25 download.altera.com
66.35.207.74 software.altera.com