Download Quartus-lite-18.1.0.625-linux.tar from Intel

Make sure that you install the software at “/opt/altera/18.1”. Create the altera directory and change the owner to your username. Replace “fritz:fritz” with your username and group.

sudo mkdir /opt/altera
sudo chown fritz:fritz /opt/altera

When you run the installation, you can deselect all FPGA device families, except Cyclone V.

mkdir /tmp/qi
cd /tmp/qi
cp <TheQuartusTarFile> .
tar -xvf Quartus-lite-18.1.0.625-linux.tar
./setup.sh

In order to be able to start the binaries from the commandline, the path for the binaries has to be in the PATH environment variable. For that you have to modify the .profile file in your home directory. Append the following snippet to the .profile file:

.profile

# Include the ALTERA fpga software
PATH="$PATH:/opt/altera/18.1/quartus/bin"
# Include the ALTERA Modelsim VHDL simulator
PATH="$PATH:/opt/altera/18.1/modelsim_ase/bin"

To see the changes in the PATH variable, you have to logout and login again. After that you can already start modelsim and quartus (see below). To check the setting of the PATH variable do:

fritz@vcae:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/altera/18.1/quartus/bin:/opt/altera/18.1/modelsim_ase/bin
fritz@vcae:~$ 

You can see that the altera directories are now part of the PATH variable.