Installation¶

1. Open a terminal window within the Virtual Machine and update the list of available packages
   

   user@MitySOM-Dev:~$ sudo apt-get update
   Ign http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease
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   Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en_US
   Fetched 3,277 kB in 4s (699 kB/s) 
   Reading package lists... Done
   

2. Install "Eclipse" using apt-get
   

   user@MitySOM-Dev:~$ sudo apt-get install eclipse
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree       
   Reading state information... Done
   The following extra packages will be installed:
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   The following packages will be upgraded:
     tzdata
   1 upgraded, 119 newly installed, 0 to remove and 310 not upgraded.
   Need to get 243 MB of archives.
   After this operation, 330 MB of additional disk space will be used.
   Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
   Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main ca-certificates-java all 20130815ubuntu1 [13.4 kB]
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   done.
   

3. Launch Eclipse
   

   user@MitySOM-Dev:~$ ~/altera/14.1/embedded/embedded
   embedded_command_shell.sh  embeddedsw/
   user@MitySOM-Dev:~$ ~/altera/14.1/embedded/embedded_command_shell.sh 
   ------------------------------------------------
   Altera Embedded Command Shell
   
   Version 14.1
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   user@MitySOM-Dev:~$ /usr/bin/eclipse 
   

4. Eclipse will now launch and will prompt for a default workspace, select the default or change to your desired location. This is where projects will be created and stored on your VM.
   

   /home/user/workspace
   

5. Add the C/C++ development tools to Eclipse by opening the "Install New Software" menu
   
6. Select "Work with All Available Sites" and then in the "Filter" section search for "CDT" and select the following
   • Autotools support for CDT (Incubation)
     
7. Select "Next" and then "Next" when prompted to Install the software and then "accept" the license terms and press "Finish" to download and install the package.
8. When prompted to restart Eclipse select "No"
9. Re-open the "Install New Software" menu
10. Select "Work with All Available Sites" and then in the "Filter" section search for "C++" and select the following
    • C/C++ GCC Cross Compiler Support
    • C/C++ Remote Launch
    • C/C++ Development Tools
      
11. Select "Next" and then "Next" when prompted to Install the software and then "accept" the license terms and press "Finish" to download and install the package.
12. When prompted to restart Eclipse select "No". Close/Exit Eclipse.
13. Continue to the "Setup" Wiki page to complete configuration to build applications for the Cyclone V processor