hi Martin, thanks once again for ur time to give me feedbacks
see, what i have done but still having probs:
sudo wget http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
ar x libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
control.tar.gz
debian-binary
data.tar.xz
tar -zxvf control.tar.gz
./
./triggers
./shlibs
./md5sums
./control
chmod 755 *
sudo ./control
./control: 1: ./control: Package:: not found
./control: 2: ./control: Source:: not found
./control: 3: ./control: Version:: not found
./control: 4: ./control: Architecture:: not found
./control: 6: ./control: Syntax error: newline unexpected
and soon for the rest of the files, so i stoped that way and went to sources.list
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
added on top: #### BACKUP for /etc/apt/sources.list created <insert date here>
added at bottom: #### Manually Added sources
## source for libpng12-0 package
deb http://mirror.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/xenial/main
sudo apt-get update
Err:10 http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng xenial/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
sudo apt-get install libpng12-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libpng12-0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'libpng12-0' has no installation candidate
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libpng12-0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libpng12-0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'libpng12-0' has no installation candidate
so nothing i have done so far, is resulting
