Lattice iCEcube2 installation on Debian

Publish date: Aug 3, 2023

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Lattice iCEcube2 FPGA IDE installation on Debian

Summary

I had a dependancy issue when trying to install the Lattice semiconductor iCEcube2 FPGA IDE The solution is to install a 32-bit version of the libpng package and create a soft link to it in /usr/lib.

The problem

I repeatedly got this error message when trying to install the Linux version of iCEcube2 from the downloaded file iCEcube2setup_Dec_10_2020_2012.

error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0

I tried installing libpng from the Ubuntu repository. I tried building the libpng12.so.0 library from the sourceforge repository.

Then I started getting a:

wrong ELFCLASS64

message.

Why is there an Elf in my machine? ELF stands for executable linked file. 64 means it is 64-bit. Here’s a clue. The installation wants a 32-bit file.

With this info, I got some help from Stackoverflow here

A solution

sudo aptitude install libpng16-16:i386
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16.37.0 libpng12.so.0

Download a 32-bit version of the libpng library. Then link this to the filename that the installation is looking for.

The next trick is to get the licence to work…