[solved] Linux and arduino error when uploading : libtinfo.so.5

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hi

I have arduino IDE 1.8.9 running on a up-to-date Arch linux system.

When I try to upload to board (just basic blink sketch to UNO)

I get following error:

An error occurred while uploading the sketch
/home/gavin/.arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/avrdude/6.3.0-arduino8/bin/avrdude: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any idea how to resolve this ,
Arduino worked on this computer before, last time I used it for it(many months ago)

Regards

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Search the web for libtinfo.so.5; there seem to be a few solutions.

Not using Arch so can't help further.

3

hi

Ok some progress ...

I got past the initial error by sym linking libtinfo.so.5 to libtinfo.so.6

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5

solved