On ubuntu; debug says "Could not determine GDB version"

[DQuir.1]

Could not determine GDB version using command: /opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.2.0/plugins/com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.externaltools.gnu-tools-for-stm32.7-2018-q2-update.linux64_1.0.0.201904181610/tools/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb --version

/opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.2.0/plugins/com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.externaltools.gnu-tools-for-stm32.7-2018-q2-update.linux64_1.0.0.201904181610/tools/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[mladen]

This solution also doesn't work for me.I'm having same behavior as Richard.

My question would be what linux distribution is proven to work for STM32 tools?

[AScha.3]

Hi,

i have latest MxLinux , MX 23.5 Libretto;

STM32CubeIDE 1.18.0  : installed 1.18. amd64_deb_bundle  , working all fine - except : no debug, because still needs this 20 y old libs, libncurses.so5  or so, but after install gdb-multiarch (and making symlink) now fine.

And (until now) never crash or suddenly cannot open ioc /Cube file and hang up then, what happened with (my last) version 1.13.

Some days ago needed CubeProgrammer, download en.stm32cubeprg-lin-v2-19-0, unzip, start install - ok. working.

Here seems from install to running it all ok, no problems at all.

[ntsafas]

OS: 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat)

STM32CubeIDE Version: 1.18.0

Steps:
1. arm-none-eabi-... installation:
- Download the Latest Release

x86_64 Linux hosted cross toolchains

AArch32 bare-metal target (arm-none-eabi)

arm-gnu-toolchain-14.2.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-eabi.tar.xz

https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/arm-gnu-toolchain-downloads

- Extract the Archive

tar -xf arm-gnu-toolchain-14.2.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-eabi.tar.xz

- Move It to /opt

sudo mv arm-gnu-toolchain-14.2.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-eabi /opt/arm-toolchain

- Add It to Your PATH

echo 'export PATH=/opt/arm-toolchain/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

2. libncurses5 installation - Solution from here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1531398/how-to-install-libncurses-so-5-for-ubuntu-24-04

https://stackoverflow.com/a/39840595
Add to source list and then install:

• deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main universe

  echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main universe" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-focal-sources.list

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get install libncurses5

3. Nothing else done in preferences

[Racim15]

My configuration : Ubuntu 24.10 /  STM32CubeIDE : 1.18.0.

After installing all the necessary packages for gdb and libncurses.so.6 (since libncurses.so.5 is not available with this version of Ubuntu), the workaround I found is to create a symbolic link for arm-none-eabi-gdb pointing to my local gdb: /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb.

you can follow this steps :

remove or just change the name of arm-none-eabi-gdb

sudo mv /opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.18.0/plugins/com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.externaltools.gnu-tools-for-stm32.13.3.rel1.linux64_1.0.0.202410170706/tools/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb /opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.18.0/plugins/com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.externaltools.gnu-tools-for-stm32.13.3.rel1.linux64_1.0.0.202410170706/tools/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb.org

create the Symbolic Link

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb /opt/st/stm32cubeide_1.18.0/plugins/com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.externaltools.gnu-tools-for-stm32.13.3.rel1.linux64_1.0.0.202410170706/tools/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb

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[ellajh7]

If that does not help. Let us know which Ubuntu version...

[ellajh7]

 I've used Linux for my work and encountered this GDB problem. Thank Sir!