{"id":1265,"date":"2014-05-14T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strongd.net\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2014-05-14T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T00:48:00","slug":"how-to-install-googles-android-eclipse-plugin-andor-adb-on-64-bit-debianubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Install Google’s Android Eclipse Plugin (And\/or Adb) on 64-bit Debian\/Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today I had to reinstall the Android plugin on my system and I recently upgraded to a 64-bit development VM. To my surprise the installation didn\u2019t go smoothly at all. After restarting Eclipse twice I was constantly presented with two error messages \u201cFailed to parse the output of \u2018adb version\u2019\u201d and \u201cadb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\u201d. Your system may also present another error message that reads \u201cadb: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\u201d.<\/p>\n

I could see that it was looking for libncurses.so.5 however I know that ncurses is already installed on my machine in \/lib as \/lib\/libncurses.so.5. So where exactly was Eclipse\/adb looking for it? It turns out that it wants to find its libraries in the \/lib32 directory but you can\u2019t just symlink it or you\u2019ll get an error that reads \u201cwrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64\u201d. adb needs to have the 32-bit versions installed or it won\u2019t function at all.<\/p>\n

So to get up and running just run the following command to fix the issue:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
After that just restart Eclipse and the issue should be fully put to bed. Let me know how it works out for you or if you run into trouble.<\/p>\n
If you still run into trouble like an error message that reads \u201caapt: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory\u201d you need to install the ia32-libs like this:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Then rebuild your project and the errors should be gone.<\/p>\n
UPDATE 2012-02-14: Rortian reports that the following command words on Fedora 16:<\/p>\n
yum install ncurses-libs.i686 libstdc++.i686 libgcc.i686\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n