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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 shared object file: No such file or directory

Why does Quartus still need libpng 12 ? This is an old library.

How can I resolve this ?

best regards

Simon

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    Altera_Forum
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    8 years ago

    Problem: libpng12 not present or not linked<=Ubuntu 14.04 and newer Linux OS usually use libpng16+ or not even present in the repositories

    Solution: Install libpng12<=Canonical repositories are no longer supporting libpng12=>https://packages.debian.org/es/jessie/libpng12-0 download the package(only .deb for debian base OS)
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    8 years ago

    Hi

    I too had the same issue with Quartus 15.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 (GNU/Linux 4.10.0-35-generic x86_64) "error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

    Solution

    1) download libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb, from https://packages.debian.org/es/jessie/amd64/libpng12-0/download

    2) dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb

    After this Quartus open up with GUI...!