cant run unetbootin-linux-583

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/06/2013 10:17 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 22:13 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> $ ./unetbootin-linux-583
>>
>> ./unetbootin-linux-583: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> # yum provides libpng12
>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>> No Matches found
>> [root at lx120e2 ~]# yum provides libpng12.so.0
>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>> 2:libpng-compat-1.5.10-1.fc17.i686 : Temporary backwards-compatibility
>> copy of old libpng
>> Repo        : fedora
>> Matched from:
>> Provides    : libpng12.so.0
>>
>> # yum install libpng-compat
>>
>> And I still get:
>>
>> $ ./unetbootin-linux-583
>> ./unetbootin-linux-583: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> So how do I get this to work?  FWIW, my system is a x86_64 install.
>>
>>
> unetbootin is booted from a a machine that is not running (like os
> Fedora installation Disk). It does not depend on libraries installed on
> the system
Install this from the Fedora repos.  and then run it and build a USB 
boot drive.  Worked fine.  Or so it seems, my Eee900 though is not 
booting from the drive, but that could be a problem I am having on this 
system.  See my posts about problems writing to USB drives.