Kali Linux upload error missing libreadline.so.6

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Any insight on this one would be most appreciated.

Fresh install of 1.8.2 on Kali Linux 4.9 64 bit

After editing the bash install file, I was able to install the IDE without issue.

I can compile my program and use the serial/USB port for monitoring but...

When I try to upload my file, I get the following error:

An error occurred while uploading the sketch
/root/.arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avrdude/6.0.1-arduino5/bin/avrdude: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I checked my linking and found that libreadline.so.6 is missing:

root@kali-Alien:~# ldconfig -p | grep libreadline
libreadline.so.7 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7
libreadline.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.5

So at the suggestion of google I created a soft link from 6 to 7

root@kali-Alien:~# ln -s /usr/lib/libreadline.so.7 /usr/lib/libreadline.so.6

but that didn't work either.

As a last ditch I downloaded the -dev library

root@kali-Alien:~# apt-get install libreadline-dev

No joy there either.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Rick

2

Found a solution.

I had to download and extract the libreadline 6.3 file from here.

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/

Then:

Go to your downloaded file

cd Downloads/readline*

Run config

./configure

Then

make && make install

And finally reset your links with

ldconfig

Rick