'uint_farptr_t' was not declared in this scope

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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So I downloaded Arduino 1.6.5 for linux 64 bit. I'm running ubuntu 14.04. I extracted the archive, entered the directory, and ran arduino. I tried to verify the trivial sketch that automatically loads and I get the errors below. I found a similar error in another forum post but I didn't find the answers useful and I think they were running on Windows. Has anyone seen this error? Can anyone help? Thanks!

Arduino: 1.6.5 (Linux), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Uno"

Build options changed, rebuilding all

/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avr-g++ -c -g -Os -w -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-threadsafe-statics -MMD -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -DARDUINO=10605 -DARDUINO_AVR_UNO -DARDUINO_ARCH_AVR -I/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino -I/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/arduino/avr/variants/standard /tmp/build4681891627605633478.tmp/sketch_sep15a.cpp -o /tmp/build4681891627605633478.tmp/sketch_sep15a.cpp.o
In file included from /home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino/Arduino.h:28:0,
from sketch_sep15a.ino:1:
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1167:26: error: 'uint_farptr_t' was not declared in this scope
extern size_t strlen_PF (uint_farptr_t src) ATTR_CONST; /* program memory can't change /
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1168:27: error: 'uint_farptr_t' was not declared in this scope
extern size_t strnlen_PF (uint_farptr_t src, size_t len) ATTR_CONST; / program memory can't change /
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1168:53: error: expected primary-expression before 'len'
extern size_t strnlen_PF (uint_farptr_t src, size_t len) ATTR_CONST; / program memory can't change /
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1168:58: error: expression list treated as compound expression in initializer [-fpermissive]
extern size_t strnlen_PF (uint_farptr_t src, size_t len) ATTR_CONST; / program memory can't change */
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1169:37: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern void *memcpy_PF (void *dest, uint_farptr_t src, size_t len);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1170:37: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern char *strcpy_PF (char *dest, uint_farptr_t src);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1171:38: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern char *strncpy_PF (char *dest, uint_farptr_t src, size_t len);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1172:37: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern char *strcat_PF (char *dest, uint_farptr_t src);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1173:38: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern size_t strlcat_PF (char *dst, uint_farptr_t src, size_t siz);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1174:38: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern char *strncat_PF (char *dest, uint_farptr_t src, size_t len);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1175:39: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern int strcmp_PF (const char *s1, uint_farptr_t s2) ATTR_PURE;
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1176:40: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern int strncmp_PF (const char *s1, uint_farptr_t s2, size_t n) ATTR_PURE;
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1177:43: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern int strcasecmp_PF (const char *s1, uint_farptr_t s2) ATTR_PURE;
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1178:44: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern int strncasecmp_PF (const char *s1, uint_farptr_t s2, size_t n) ATTR_PURE;
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1179:41: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern char *strstr_PF (const char *s1, uint_farptr_t s2);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1180:38: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern size_t strlcpy_PF (char *dst, uint_farptr_t src, size_t siz);
^
/home/chuck/arduino-1.6.5-r5/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include/avr/pgmspace.h:1181:36: error: 'uint_farptr_t' has not been declared
extern int memcmp_PF(const void *, uint_farptr_t, size_t) ATTR_PURE;
^
Error compiling.

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Those types are defined in inttypes.h which is included by pgmspace.h. My guess is that some compiler search path is faulty.

A bunch of people have had IDE 1.6.x problems, including IDE crashes and bizarre compile errors, when they have an old 1.5.x/1.6.x installation. Those problems seem to be caused by out-of-date executables that the new IDE saves outside the IDE installation directory. In such cases it appears that the fix is to delete or rename the old "Arduino15" directory and re-install 1.6.x.

On Mac OS X:
/Users/(username)/Library/Arduino15

On Windows:
C:\Users(username)\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15

On Linux:
/home/(username)/.arduino15 (a.k.a. ~/.arduino15)