can't install unetbootin on opensuse 11.4

vike4 · June 12, 2011, 7:56am

i can’t understand the above.can you please explain me clearly?i have one another doubt.if we select hard disk(in type) which will happen?

caf4926 · June 12, 2011, 7:58am

It means just do what you just did to start it working.

vike4 · June 12, 2011, 8:02am

i have one another doubt.if we select hard disk(in type) which will happen?

caf4926 · June 12, 2011, 8:34am

Do you understand what unetbootin does
Have you read here
UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads

vike4 · June 12, 2011, 8:55am

Hmm Thanks for your help Carl.

martin_helm · June 12, 2011, 3:48pm

vike4 wrote:

>
> i have one another doubt.if we select hard disk(in type) which will
> happen?
>
Then you will have a good chance to overwrite your operating system!! Unless
you know exactly what you do and choose precisly a hard disk which does not
contain your main system.

vike4 · June 12, 2011, 4:31pm

will it make my system unbootable?i don’t know this now i am fully awared.

Thank you Martin

martin_helm · June 12, 2011, 4:50pm

vike4 wrote:
>
> will it make my system unbootable?i don’t know this now i am fully
> awared.
>
The pure selection of the “hard disk” selection will do nothing at all of
course. But if you then select your main OS hard disk as target for
unetbootin and start to write your selected operating system to it then you
will boot into that in the future and your main OS is of course rendered
unusable.
Why would you want to select hard disk? The usual way is to select an
“external” drive with “usb drive” to create a install or live stick with the
OS of your choice?

I cannot see from your posts what you really want to do with unetbootin. I
use it to make an usb stick if I want to install linux mint for someone who
does not want openSUSE, otherwise I use dd if I want to make a bootable usb
stick for openSUSE (unetbootin does not work for me for that).

vike4 · June 12, 2011, 5:46pm

@Martin purpose of asking this ‘how will it work?’ only.i am also using unetbootin to install an os via usb drive.

martin_helm · June 12, 2011, 6:26pm

vike4 wrote:

>
> vike4;2352390 Wrote:
>> i have one another doubt.if we select hard disk(in type) which will
>> happen?
>
> @Martin purpose of asking this ‘how will it work?’ only.i am also using
> unetbootin to install an os via usb drive.
>
For example if you have several hard drives and want to install a test
system on one which you do not use for anything else it may make sense to do
it with unetbootin, but to be honest I would think even in that case it
makes more sense to do such an install onto that drive in the traditional
way to have a dual, triple or more boot system. Just my 2ct, so I always
ignored the possibility to use “hard disk” as selection.
Maybe someone else can give an example when it makes sense to use that.

vike4 · June 12, 2011, 10:10pm

Thanks for your answers Martin.

ronz111 · September 29, 2011, 7:20am

Hi…I have a similar problem…I have downloaded ‘unetbootin-linux-555’ and I have run konsole with the script 'chmod +x /home/ronnie/Downloads/unetbootin-linux-555
’ and it went to the next line. And after I entered './unetbootin-linux-555
’ it said ‘./unetbootin-linux-555: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory’…

Please suggest solutions

eng-int · September 29, 2011, 9:36am

Install libpng12 with YaST?

ronz111 · September 29, 2011, 10:55am

I checked and looks like I already have the libpng12-0 (Library for PNG) installed.

eng-int · September 29, 2011, 11:12am

For 11.4 with updates.

ray@giulia:~/tmp> l /usr/lib64/libpng12*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   18 Aug 21 09:34 /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0 -> libpng12.so.0.46.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 168K Aug  2 17:33 /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0.46.0*
ray@giulia:~/tmp>

prossi1 · January 6, 2012, 4:42pm

-$zypper in libpng12-0-32bit

I’m running Tumbleweed x86_64, but installing the 32bit libraries got it working for me - it’s worth a shot.

user · January 7, 2012, 9:57am

prossi1 wrote:

>
> ronz111;2388662 Wrote:
>> I checked and looks like I already have the -libpng12-0- (Library for
>> PNG) installed.
> -$zypper in libpng12-0-32bit
>
> I’m running Tumbleweed x86_64, but installing the 32bit libraries got
> it working for me - it’s worth a shot.
>
>
With the standard 12.1 installation, unetbootin is available and can be
found with a software search from the openSUSE site with “Search options”
and click “Include users’ home projects”