I can't install ide cube on ubuntu 24

[yogui_ricardo]

When I try to install it I get this error: "The following packages have unmet dependencies:
st-stm32cubeide-1.16.1 : Depends: libncurses5 but is not installable
Depends: libpython2.7 but is not installable
Depends: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 but is not installable"
any ideas? thanks in advance

[PGump.1]

Hi,

Try the generic version of 1.16.0, then update through CubeIDE's updater. That worked for me on Tumbleweed.

I hope that helps.

Kind regards
Pedro

[ValereAq]

Hi,

Good news that can work, maybe something slightly different create the issue for me and a lot of people...

Which distribution of Linux are you using ?

Indeed, I already tried 1.16.0 before, 'arm-none-eabi-gdb' also requires libncurses5 (thus very specific version of it which doesn't really make sense for me). I tried 1.16.1 hopping it would had been fixed.

I see two solutions, get a newer generic 'arm-none-eabi-gdb' and replaced it in STMCubeIDE.

Use Archlinux... which integrate a packet creating a compatibility layer between libncurses5 and libncurses6, but I tend to avoid using Archlinux on my work computer.

Initially I had to migrate from the previous Ubuntu LTS to newer for very complex issues with Virtual Box...

Best regards.

[PGump.1]

PS: my system has NCURSES 5 installed...

[ValereAq]

Thanks PGump.1, that's indeed a very logical way for it to work... it's the third option.

I really want to avoid adding manually a deprecated lib (libncurses 6 exists since more or less 2018, and 6.1 date back 2020 so it's quite logical to deprecated libncurses 5).

[PGump.1]

@ValereAq  I have had my system for a few years. I can't remember ever installing NCURSES 5. My system must have evolved that way...

Good luck.

Kind regards
Pedro

[aerobiotic]

Because Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't have those library versions. The best thing would be for ST to rebuild the tools for the 24.04 version of Ubuntu.  I got the same error on my new Ubuntu 24.04 installation. Luckily, I have another machine with the previous LTS version of Ubuntu (22.04 Jammy Jellyfish). The STM32VCubeIDE install worked fine there. I used the Linux zip and not the deb file. I don't have any reason to believe that the deb version would not work on 22.04 ... I just have not tried it. 

[George Eliozov]

A quick temporary solution, tested on arm-none-eabi-gdb:

# create local path to store softlink to ncurses6, avoid sudo, also doesn't introduce 
# files into a system directory
mkdir -p ~/path/to/some/dir
cd ~/path/to/some/dir
# whole idea is to make soft links libncursesw.so.5 -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6
# check the version installed in your system-wide ncurses library 
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 libtinfo.so.5
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 libncursesw.so.5

# try to execute, should work
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/path/to/some/dir arm-none-eabi-gdb 

# to make systemwide, add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to your startup script, eg ~/.profile
# do not forget to substitute '~' with $HOME
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/path/to/some/

I didn't found a proper code highlight for SH script so used a python, should be readable...

[ezioall]

ciao

I tried your code but it doesn't find the directory it gives me the following error

:~/path/to/some/dir$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/path/to/some/dir arm-none-eabi-gdb 
arm-none-eabi-gdb: comando non trovato

[debugging]

1.16.1 works fine on 24.10 for me. There is a conflict between FreeCAD 0.21, Kicad  8etc.. for Libncurses though. Perhaps uninstall those  from the repository, then install CubEIDE again.  On 24.04/10 you need to apply the ulimit though (see sticky post). I run FreeCAD, Kicad 8 an CubeIDE w/o problems on 24.10 now.