missing 32 bin libpng.so.3

Asked by Russell Almond

I'm trying to install the HIDPoint driver (which is only rated for Unbuntu 10) on Unbuntu 12.04 64-bit.
I've installed the libpng3 and ia32-libs and ia32-multiarch:i386 packages. But I still get the error cannot find libpng.so.3 when trying to run the HIDPoint driver.

Searching for the library, I get
almond@Limu:~/Downloads$ apt-file list libpng3
libpng3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng.so.3
libpng3: /usr/share/doc/libpng3
almond@Limu:~/Downloads$ ls /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng*
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng*: No such file or directory

It seems like I am missing something. Maybe a symlink. This seems to be related to bug #707770, but that is closed as fixed.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Russell Almond (almond-m) said :
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I tried adding the symlink:
almond@Limu:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu$ sudo ln -s /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 libpng.so.3
That seems to have worked around the problem.