How to install libpng12-0?

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Hi,
I needed libpng 1.2 for the driver of my old Canon printer. On Debian > Jessie it is simply no longer available, but Antix Buster provides a package, libpng12-0. However, I could not install it using sudo apt-get install libpng12-0. The problem seems the same as reported here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1136302/can-not-install-libpng12-so-0-on-ubuntu-19-04-for-packet-tracert-7, i.e. /lib/ has become a symlink to /usr/lib/. The .deb from Debian Jessie will therefore no longer work. As a work-around, I installed the .deb provided by https://askubuntu.com/questions/1136302/can-not-install-libpng12-so-0-on-ubuntu-19-04-for-packet-tracert-7 and this seems to work fine, but it would of course be best to update the repos.

[Member Dzhigit]

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Hello antiX developers. I have just encountered this same issue today. Is it possible to fix the libpng12-0 package in antiX?

[Anonymous]

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This is just patched to enable installation on antiX19 (debian buster base).
A later codebase version (12.54) which probably added further CVE -related patches is available from ubuntu archive.
https://gitlab.com/skidoo/libpng12-0/-/blob/master/libpng12-0_1.2.50-3~ski_amd64.deb

You application may, or might not, also require the -dev package:
https://gitlab.com/skidoo/libpng12-0/-/blob/master/libpng12-dev_1.2.50-3~ski_amd64.deb

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references:

http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.50.orig.tar.xz
http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.50-2+deb8u3.debian.tar.xz

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.54.orig.tar.xz
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng_1.2.54-1ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz

ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng12/libpng-1.2.59.tar.xz

https://sourceforge.net/p/png-mng/mailman/png-mng-implement/

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libpng12-0;dist=unstable
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=922214
grave: uninstallable on buster/sid

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Try this version: https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/Testing/

If ok, I’ll add them to the repos

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Thank you! libpng12-0_1.2.54-1.0antix1_amd64.deb is working for me. I also installed libpng12-0_1.2.54-1.0antix1_i386.deb, libpng12-dev_1.2.54-1.0antix1_amd64.deb, and libpng12-dev_1.2.54-1.0antix1_i386.deb to make sure there weren’t any APT errors, but the program I was using only uses the first one. Also, if anyone else installs these, be warned that these -dev packages will cause APT to uninstall libgtk-3-dev, in case you have that installed.

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