Issues trying to run VESTA on the UBUNTU 18.04

[Stolz Sandra]

Hello everyone,

 

I have downloaded VESTA-x86_64 and tried to run it but I get this error: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0. 

After this I wrote:

sudo apt-get install libpng12-0 

,but I get this message:

Package libpng12-0 is not available, but is referred by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.

What should I do in order to get it running? 

A great day!

Sandra

[wei...@gmail.com]

Hi Sandra,

A quick Google search shows that this links has the answer you wanted:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/840257/e-package-libpng12-0-has-no-installation-candidate-ubuntu-16-10-gnome/840268

If you can't access that linke, here’s how to install libpng12-0.

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

at the bottom of the file add

#### Manually Added sources

## source for libpng12-0 package

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/ xenial main

note for above, mirrors.kernel.org is one of many mirrors that can be used. You can replace mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu with any of the mirrors listed at http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/libpng12-0/download that you wish to use

now to update the package list

sudo apt-get update

and install the package

sudo apt-get install libpng12-0

[Stolz Sandra]

Thank you very much ! It worked

Have a nice day, 

Sandra