Bug#922214: libpng12-0: libpng12.so.0 can not be installed, file or directory not found

[Bastian Germann]

You can use version 1.2.49-3 which is the last version that does not
add the conflicting symbolic links.

Bug#922214: libpng12-0: libpng12.so.0 can not be installed, file or directory not found

[Ivan Stenda]

Same situation here, fresh SID install with multiarch support enabled:
root@xxx:~# apt-get install libpng12-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libexiv2-13 liblensfun-data liblensfun0 libopengl0 libreadline7
nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpng12-0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/173 kB of archives.
After this operation, 273 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 226237 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpng12-0:amd64 (1.2.50-2+deb8u3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to install new version of
'/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Bug#922214: libpng12-0: libpng12.so.0 can not be installed, file or directory not found

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

> Package: libpng12-0
> Version: 1.2.50-2+deb8u3
> Severity: grave
> Tags: a11y d-i
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> dpkg says while trying to install:
> file /usr/lib/x86_64-gnu-linux/libpng12-0.so.0 can not be installed, file or 
> directory not found
> and the installation is aborted
> unpacking the deb-archiv is possible and in the package is that file in 
> question as a symlink to /lib/x86_64-gnu-linux/libpng12.so.0,
> which is a symlink to /lib/x86_64-gnu-linux/libpng12.so.0.50.0
>

I could not reproduce this problem.
Could you tell me the environment you have run?

-
root@hoge:/# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 8 \n \l

root@hoge:/# LANG=C apt-get install libpng12-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpng12-0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/173 kB of archives.
After this operation, 273 kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (19: No such device)
Selecting previously unselected package libpng12-0:amd64.
(Reading database ... 9757 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpng12-0:amd64 (1.2.50-2+deb8u3) ...
Setting up libpng12-0:amd64 (1.2.50-2+deb8u3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u10) ...
-

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

-- 
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
   iwamatsu at {nigauri.org / debian.org}
   GPG ID: 40AD1FA6

Bug#922214: libpng12-0: libpng12.so.0 can not be installed, file or directory not found

[Sven Schumacher]

Package: libpng12-0
Version: 1.2.50-2+deb8u3
Severity: grave
Tags: a11y d-i
Justification: renders package unusable

dpkg says while trying to install:
file /usr/lib/x86_64-gnu-linux/libpng12-0.so.0 can not be installed, file or 
directory not found
and the installation is aborted
unpacking the deb-archiv is possible and in the package is that file in 
question as a symlink to /lib/x86_64-gnu-linux/libpng12.so.0,
which is a symlink to /lib/x86_64-gnu-linux/libpng12.so.0.50.0



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (700, 'stable-updates'), (700, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), 
(700, 'stable'), (700, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libpng12-0 depends on:
ii  libc6  2.28-7
ii  multiarch-support  2.28-7
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

libpng12-0 recommends no packages.

libpng12-0 suggests no packages.