error while loading shared libraries libncurses so 5

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I ve installed Android Studio and tried to run my first project in it  and I ve got following error   Error Output was   home user android-studio sdk platform-tools adb  error while loading       shared libraries  libncurses so 5  cannot open shared object file  No such file or directory   I ve already tried to run  sudo ldconfig   but it doesnt help  I ve recently installed libncurses  before using android studio    What should I do

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error while loading shared libraries  libncurses so 5  If you see this  your distro probably has a newer version of libncurse installed  First find out what version of libncurses your distro has     ls -1  usr lib libncurses   usr lib libncurses so  usr lib libncurses   so  usr lib libncurses  w so  usr lib libncursesw so  usr lib libncurses  w so 6  usr lib libncursesw so 6  usr lib libncurses  w so 6 0  usr lib libncursesw so 6 0   In this case  we are dealing with version 6  so we make two symlinks     sudo ln -s  usr lib libncursesw so 6 0  usr lib libncurses so 5   sudo ln -s  usr lib libncursesw so 6 0  usr lib libtinfo so 5   After this  the program should run normally

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Mixaz s above answer worked for me  However I had issues installing the package because of PGP check failures  Installing it by skipping the signature worked  you could try this    yaourt --m-arg  --skipchecksums --skippgpcheck  -Sb  lt your-package gt

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On Arch  i fix like this   sudo ln -s  usr lib libncursesw so 6  usr lib libtinfo so 6

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If you are absolutely sure that libncurses  aka ncurses  is installed  as in you ve done a successful  ls  of the library  then perhaps you are running a 64 bit Linux operating system and only have the 64 bit libncurses installed  when the program that is running  adb  is 32 bit     If so  a 32 bit program can t link to a 64 bit library  and won t located it anyway   so you might have to install libcurses  or ncurses  32 bit version    Likewise  if you are running a 64 bit adb  perhaps your ncurses is 32 bit  a possible but less likely scenario

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If libncurses is not installed then install it and try again  sudo apt-get install libncurses5 i386 or sudo apt-get install libncurses5 for 64 bit binaries Also install the collection of libraries by using this command sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

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To install ncurses-compat-libs on Fedora 24 helped me on this issue   unable to start adb error while loading       shared libraries  libncurses so 5

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In Fedora 28 use    sudo dnf install ncurses-compat-libs

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For Redhat Linux 8 try this   sudo yum install libncurses

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Your system likely does not provide the ncurses library at the version android studio uses  My arch linux install only had ncurses 6 but android studio needs version 5  You could check if your distribution has a compatability package  or use the solution that Rahmat Aligos suggested

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I solved the issue using   ln -s libncursesw so 5   lib x86 64-linux-gnu libncursesw so 6   on ubunutu 18 10

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On Arch Linux you can install ncurses5-compat-libs AUR package    FYI it is mentioned in Arch Wiki android page  just in case if you ll need some other dependencies for Android Studio  https   wiki archlinux org index php Android

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