Arduino IDE not running on Ubuntu

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I recently installed Arduino IDE on my Ubuntu laptop. I am fairly new to Ubuntu having installed it on my Samsung laptop. The laptop is only running Ubuntu and I am on version 14.04 which I believe is current. I installed Arduino using both the apt-get method and directly from the Software Center and in both cases the problem is the same. Installation goes fine and the application appears on my dock. When I click on the icon nothing happens. I read that you get more information when you run it through terminal so I did that and get this output.

jeff@jeff-300E4A-300E5A-300E7A:~$ arduino
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1965)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1890)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1851)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:795)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1062)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(ClassLoader.java:1965)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1890)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1872)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:849)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1088)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:67)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:47)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1646)
at java.awt.Toolkit.(Toolkit.java:1668)
at java.awt.Component.(Component.java:595)
at processing.app.Preferences.save(Preferences.java:735)
at processing.app.Preferences.init(Preferences.java:249)
at processing.app.Base.main(Base.java:117)

I am fairly new to Linux and really can make very little sense of this. Has anyone encountered something like this? Better yet does anyone know of an approach to fixing this? Running other applications from Terminal does not yield this same problem, this appears to be a unique feature of the IDE.

OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Version of IDE: 1.05

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It can't find the library, libXrender.so.1. Install (or reinstall) it from the repository.
I run Arduino 1.0.5 on 14.04 from the tarball on the arduino site and have no problems. It does not look for libXrender.so.1 and I don't have it installed.
The tarball will coexist with the repository stuff if you want to give it a try.

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Thank you for your input on my little problem. I uninstalled arduino and downloaded the current version (1.0.6 ). I extracted the tar.gz file following the instructions here

http://planfully.com/install-arduino-ubuntu/

I click on the executable file in the arduino-1.0.6 folder and it opens up terminal and pops up something too quickly too read. It looks however like the error is the same. So I am at a loss.

I have also attempted to reinstall the package but get this

jeff@jeff-300E4A-300E5A-300E7A:~$ sudo apt-get install libXrender.so.1
[sudo] password for jeff:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libXrender.so.1
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libXrender.so.1'

Following the instructions here:

Do you have any more suggestions or am I simply resigned to using arduino on my desktop (which would make me sad)

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apt-get install libxrender1

Run Arduino from a terminal.
cd PathTo/arduino-1.0.6 then ./arduino

As I said before I run Arduino 1.0.6 on Xubuntu 14.04 with no problems and no libXrender. Your problem is a bit of a mystery.

Edit: Well I do have libXrender, they changed the location. I was looking in the wrong directory.