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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

[Q] Is there any problem with Ubuntu 17.x.x for Quartus II?

Hello, I installed the free edition of Quartus on Ubuntu. But, I can't start it. The error looks like: $./quartus $quartus: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot o...
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denormal
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7 years ago

Debian user here. Close to Ubuntu so hopefully this will work for you.

I'm sure you've long since found an answer but one solution is to build libpng12 from source and install. On libpng's webpage you can find a link to the source. Look for the tarball of libpng12 (i used libpng-1.2.59.tar.gz), extract and in the directory you extracted to run...

./configure
make
sudo make install

Then finally to update the links to the new shared libraries.

sudo ldconfig

I didn't get any conflicts from having different versions of libpng installed but if you do you may need to remove your current version before installing.

Links

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng12/1.2.59/