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I just installed the 1.6.7 version and want to upload it a sketch to Arduino UNO hardware. I get error message:

/home/pali/Irataim/TarBalls/Arduino/arduino-1.6.7/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm on Gentoo linux operating system.

How can I solve this problem?

By following this link:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7815500.html?sid=f67283068e3655b2f9e259a2097efef6
I just add tinfo USE flag to ncurses package, re-emerged it and can run Arduino IDE that I emerged from Gentoo repository.

Chris Stratton
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Install libtinfo5, the terminfo library.

If that doesn't help, you can try to debug the problem yourself. First, check which libtinfo avrdude is looking for:

ldd arduino-1.7.8-linux64/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude_bin | grep libtinfo

On my Ubuntu, I get this:

libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fa74a888000)

Next, see where your libtinfo is installed:

find /lib /usr/lib -name 'libtinfo*'

On my system I get:

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5.9

Do you have any discrepancy between the two?

Edgar Bonet
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You have to rebuild sys-libs/ncurses with tinfo USE flag turned on. (You can also make a symlink: libtinfo.so -> libncurses.so, but it's not elegant solution).

Firstly, check if you have a record for ncurses in any file in /etc/portage/package.use. If not, create a file /etc/portage/package.use/ncurses with such content:

sys-libs/ncurses tinfo

then, rebuild ncurses:

emerge -av sys-libs/ncurses
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