Eclipse Android Plugin

[foampile]

I am struggling mightily with installing ADT (Android Dev Tools) on Eclipse in F16.

the Eclipse itself, BTW, 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.

See the screenshot

Please help cause I need to work on my mobile app...

Thanks

[foampile]

Switched from GNOME to KDE desktop -- problem gone !!

[trekkie690]

I read that is says it cannot find the shared library aka its not installed.

try

rpm -qa | grep libncurses

if it replies with something then im not sure what package the libncurses is from, otherwise if nothing returns try

yum install libncurses

and if nothing installs then, again i dont know what package that shared library is from. I had a similar problem but another library was the issue