"Start ADB" does not work, gives ncurses error

[bryanlarsen]

If I click on "Start ADB" it gives me the error:

 /home/blarsen/.config/google-chrome-beta/Default/Extensions/dpngiggdglpdnjdoaefidgiigpemgage/0.9.7_0/linux/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libncurses5-5.9+20130608-1ubuntu1 is installed on my machine.

I have to start adb manually at the command line by typing adb devices. When I do that the icon turns green and everything works fine.

uname -a: Linux ball 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Google Chrome 31.0.1650.48 (Official Build 233213) beta

ADB 0.9.7

[paulirish]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks very much for the detailed bug report, however we're now deprecating this extension.

Chrome now has full built-in support for remote debugging so the extension is no longer neccessary.

All the details are updated here: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging#remote-debugging ☜

(If that doesnt work for you, fall back to the using the adb binary)