Eclipse Android Plugin — libncurses.so.5

Question

I am struggling mightily with installing ADT (Android Dev Tools) on Eclipse in Fedora 16 OS, 64-bit.

Eclipse itself is running fine.

As instructed, I first i

Answer 1

This solved the problem entirely:

yum install ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc++.i686 libgcc.i686

Answer 2

yaourt -S multilib/lib32-ncurses

for ArchLinux

Answer 3

You probably don't have libncurses5 installed. Try

rpm --install ncurses-libs

Answer 4

This tip from Tim Mattison's blog did it for me under Debian Wheezy:

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6

Answer 5

had similar issue on centos:

./adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

did the following:

yum install ncurses ncurses-devel ncurses-libs ncurses-libs.i686   ncurses-devel.i686 

And the issue fixed.

Answer 6

This is happening because Android SDK is a 32bit application and require some 32bit shared libraries,

I had same issue on Ubuntu 64 bits, and fixed with:

$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs