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10 years ago

Quartus 15.1 requires libpng12 ?

Hello, I have just installed Quartus 15.1 64-bit edition on a Linux machine. Starting quartus gave me : quartus: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open share...
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10 years ago

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I frequently have similar issues with shared objects on my CentOS servers. Running the following command fixes many of them:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Altera/altera15.1/quartus/linux64 # point to your quartus installation

/opt/Altera/altera15.1/quartus/bin/quartus_sh --64bit -gui & # open Quartus GUI

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Thanks for sharing this.