Eclipse Android Plugin -- libncurses.so.5 - 【StackMirror】|android|linux|eclipse

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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 installed the regular Android SDK, the OS-level toolkit. That went smoothly and I was able to use the Android app within the tools dir.

In Eclipse, it was a little more difficult because I first had to install GWT or google-related tools, which required a core Eclipse Indigo update of WST. Finally, the ADT install reported success.

However, every time when opening Eclipse, it gives me a multitude of popups regarding libncurses.so.5 and the following log:

[2012-04-04 02:06:35 - adb] /opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2012-04-04 02:06:35 - adb] 'adb version' failed!
/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2012-04-04 02:06:35 - adb] Failed to parse the output of 'adb version':
Standard Output was:

Error Output was:
/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[2012-04-04 02:06:35 - adb] /opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2012-04-04 02:06:35 - adb] 'adb version' failed!
/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2012-04-04 02:06:35 - adb] Failed to parse the output of 'adb version':
Standard Output was:

Error Output was:
/opt/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I do try to open Android SDK Manager (under Window), the plugin does open but the window has no close button anywhere (unlike the same one at the OS-level, which also looks the same) so the only way to get out of it is to find the Eclipse PID and kill it.

2012-04-04 06:23
by amphibient

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This solved the problem entirely:

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

2012-04-06 21:00
by amphibient

And for ubuntu: apt-get install lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6

(lib32gcc1 is pulled in as a dependency - vsekhar 2012-04-29 00:07

@vsekhar, thanks! I was trying this on debian 64bit and those were the packages I needed - jlafay 2012-05-04 18:22

Arch: pacman -Syv lib32-libstdc++5 lib32-ncurses lib32-gcc-libs : - Cheezmeister 2013-05-07 02:55

@vsekhar Your fix also works for Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit - baskinomics 2013-07-01 03:36

quite amazed how after I had to switch to 64bits to compile android 4.2, I have to install a whole lot of 32 bits versions of libraries to have it actually work .. - njzk2 2013-08-08 15:06

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

2012-04-28 17:34
by sourcerebels

This is overkill by about 40 libs and 240MB. See the three specific libs needed in foampile's answe - vsekhar 2012-04-29 00:12

You are ok, so mi upvote is for your comment. But it solves main problem and that was solution I used. I just can't do apt-get install libncurses because is already installed - sourcerebels 2012-04-29 06:50

you aren't overwriting your existing ncurses, you are merely adding lib32ncurses5 (and friends - Ajax 2012-11-19 04:20

@sourcerebels Thanks Buddy, this fixed my missing libncurses problem for BitchX in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : - GTodorov 2012-11-25 18:40

You can just sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386 to install the required library - much lighter than ia32-libsiomartin 2013-03-15 14:40

Ok. This does the trick on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I agree, a huge download but it works. Thank you - Geppettvs D'Constanzo 2013-04-18 17:25

Install just libncurses5:

$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386

ia32-libs will install much unnecessary libs.

2013-06-06 13:32
by DragonT

This helped me on Ubunt - AlexR 2013-06-14 07:00

Solved it for me. I'm running Debian here - corazza 2013-07-01 20:36

Thanks, it helped to me in ubuntu 12.04 64bi - Aron Elias Herrera Ponte 2013-09-04 15:19

yaourt -S multilib/lib32-ncurses

for ArchLinux

2012-10-27 10:02
by Microcheapfx

the OP was asking for Fedora informatio - Oin 2012-10-27 10:26

@Oin this is the first thread that shows up for "android ncurses 5 so error" so it is relevant for other distros/packaging systems as well - Jason Axelson 2013-05-30 20:46

I am trying to compile FFMPEG for android. now your command is installing the version 6 of the library though FFMPEG requires it to be version 5 perhaps. How to install version 5 of it - Anuran Barman 2018-02-25 06:49

You probably don't have libncurses5 installed. Try

rpm --install ncurses-libs

2012-04-04 06:42
by Diego Torres Milano

i do have libncurses5

[root@t520 init.d]# yum install ncurses-libs.x8664 Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Install Process Package ncurses-libs-5.9-2.20110716.fc16.x8664 already installed and latest version Nothing to d - amphibient 2012-04-04 17:02

adb uses the 32bit packages, I think.. - Diego Torres Milano 2012-04-04 21:10

yum install ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc++.i686 libgcc.i68 - amphibient 2012-04-06 20:59

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.

2013-03-18 10:43
by SamG

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

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6

2014-02-19 14:15
by wedesoft