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anonimcs
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3 months ago

Quartus error libpng12.so.0 on Ubuntu 22.04

Hi all,

I'm trying to run Quartus Prime 17.1 Standard version on my Ubuntu 22.04 system. I recently upgraded my pc to Ubuntu 22 from Ubuntu 20.04, and back then I could run Quartus 17.1 without any issues. Now when I try to run it on Ubuntu 22, I'm getting this error message:

quartus: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've tried installing libpng12 to my computer but it didn't help. Followed all the tips I could find online but I still cannot launch Quartus 17 on my pc. Has any of you guys experienced the same (or similar) issue here and managed to solve it ?

Cheers

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    • anonimcs's avatar
      anonimcs
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      2 months ago

      Thanks for the reply!

      Yeah I also noticed that I was lucky with 20.04, as I install Quartus 17.1 on a Ubuntu 20.04 VM, got the same error as above.

      I am already using a newer version of Quartus for the project, a year ago or sth I upgraded the project from Quartus 17.1 to 21.3 Pro, but recently we're experiencing some differences at the output data (the VHDL code and the IP parameters weren't changed, only the Quartus upgrade). That's why I wanted to re-synthesize the project on 17 and 21.3 to check the IP cores if possible.

  • KennyT_altera's avatar
    KennyT_altera
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    2 months ago

    If you read the readme file, this is the supported OS:


    System Requirements

    ===================

    Operating system support

    ------------------------

    * Windows 7 SP1(64 bit)

    * Windows 8.1 (64 bit)

    * Windows 10 (64 bit)

    * Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64 bit)

    * Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 (64 bit)

    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 (64 bit)

    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 (64 bit)

    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (64 bit)

    * SUSE SLE 12

    * Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (64 bit)

    * Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (64 bit)


    As such, you may think about downgrading your OS for the supported Quartus.