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Offline effo

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Missing libpng12.so.0
« on: 2017/01/25, 19:23:23 »
To access the VDI I use at work, I am expected to use VMWare Horizont Client. It is available here. According to this article in Debian wiki it should be possible to run the client on Debian. I have downloaded the bin and run it. When I try to run the viewer, I end up with this in the shell:
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usr/lib/vmware/view/bin/vmware-view: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Also, I have symlinked libudev.so.0 as described in the article


Where do I find libpng12.so.0 ?

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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #1 on: 2017/01/25, 19:27:26 »
in der libpng12-0
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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #2 on: 2017/01/25, 20:12:37 »
Thanks, I actually tried that without success:
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root@siductionbox:~# apt-cache search libpng12-0
root@siductionbox:~# apt-get install libpng12-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libpng12-0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source 

E: Package 'libpng12-0' has no installation candidate
root@siductionbox:~#


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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #3 on: 2017/01/25, 20:33:58 »

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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #4 on: 2017/01/25, 22:21:18 »
nu ja - in stable isses drin, ob es allerdings ne sonderlich clevere idee ist, dass in ein laufendes sid zu mixen - aber im allgemeinen brauchts ja nur die binaries und nicht die -dev's
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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #5 on: 2017/01/26, 17:23:01 »

Google translates this to "I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but it's not a good idea"


I'll give it a try anyway...


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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #6 on: 2017/01/26, 19:31:17 »
I would go with debports.

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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #7 on: 2017/01/30, 17:02:33 »
I don't know if I'm doing this correct. Trying to follow this instruction


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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libpng12-0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libpng12-0' has no installation candidate



searching at packages.debian.org ends up with this list

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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #8 on: 2017/01/30, 17:42:47 »
try the simple jessie (stable) repros
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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #9 on: 2017/01/30, 19:10:50 »
Thanks, that did the trick!

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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #10 on: 2017/01/30, 20:43:36 »
Debports are not the same as backports: https://www.ports.debian.org/archive

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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #11 on: 2017/01/30, 20:53:56 »
But on debports you will not find any i386 or amd64 deb.  ???
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Re: Missing libpng12.so.0
« Reply #12 on: 2017/01/30, 21:45:04 »
You are right, I misread arm for amd :)