ubuntu, libpng12 and libpng16

[Alexander Selyutin]

Hello everyone,
I use ubuntu 16.10 and there is not libpng12 package but libpng16 exists. I try to use symlink to solve this problem, but it cannot solve problem because version is hardcoded in vesta.

without symlink

~$ VESTA 

     /usr/local/vesta-3.4.0/VESTA-gui: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I create symlink:

~$ sudo ln -s libudev.so /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0

~$ sudo ln -s libpng16.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0

but it did not help me:

~$ VESTA 

      /usr/local/vesta-3.4.0/VESTA-gui: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0: version `PNG12_0' not found (required by /usr/local/vesta-3.4.0/VESTA-gui)

How can I use vesta on ubuntu version latter than 16.04?

Thanks.

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Regards,

Alexander Selyutin

[guedes.s...@gmail.com]

I'm having the same problem at 16.x and 17.x for Ubuntu.

And I'm trying to solve. However, It's complicated. I'm considering the possibility to reinstall the 14.04 version, which is LTS and has support up to 2019.
If you have some update about the problem, please, post here.

Best
Diego

[Juan Ríos]

Hello. I could fix this installing a "libpng12 package" from "https://packages.debian.org/en/jessie/amd64/libpng12-0/download" with GDebi installer package.

Juan.