Hello all
, Unfortunately my board and blaster has not turned up yet but I have set up the Quartus program under Linux Mint 18 Sarah 64-bit Kernel 4.4.0-92. When I first ran the program I loaded up franks .jic file then went to hardware setup then clicked add hardware and in the port line it was saying about some port permission problem so I closed the program down then right clicked on the Quartus II 13.0sp1 (64-bit) Web Edition icon on the desktop and went down to "open as administrator" option in the context menu (when the software was installed it gave an option to add desktop shortcut).
After giving it the password it opened up with super user privileges now the port line has a location in it (see pic). Obviously I cant test it yet as I don't have the board or blaster but I think it looks promising.
Good luck