"Could not determine GDB version" running on Linux 24.04 LTS Noble

[boazkmichael]

Hi all I am a newbie to Linux and I badly want to excel in the system and currently i've stumbled upon an issue of not being able to run and debug my code to STM32-NUCLEO-F4460RE board through CUBE IDE. On running the program to my bord its i showing an error window and giving error message "Could not determine GDB version using command: arm-none-eabi-gdb --version". I asked Gemini and Chatgpt for help and got replies that made me symlink my libncurses.so.6.4 to .so.5 and similarly with libtinfo, then I installed gdb-multiarch as I was not able to download arm-none-eabi-gdb even with .gcc. Even I changed the prefernce to gdb-multiarch and its still the same. To add my Linux version is 24.04 LTS Noble. Kindly someone help me out of this mess.

[Souhaib MAZHOUD]

Hello @boazkmichael 

Are you using the latest version of CubeIDE 2.0.0?

 

[boazkmichael]

No the version is 1.19.0

[Souhaib MAZHOUD]

Hello @boazkmichael 

This was a known issue using stm32cubeIDE 1.19.0, the libncurses must be installed manually 

Could you please try installing the new version of CubeIDE 2.0.0? This should resolve the issue.

BR, Souhaib

[Ozone]

> Hi all I am a newbie to Linux and I badly want to excel in the system 

That's quite a challenge ...

What does "which gdb" say ?

It should look somewhat like this:

I suppose a Linux installation of CubeIDE should come with a proper gdb version.
I am no Cube user, so I cannot comment on that, or specific version requirements of CubeIDE.

BTW, a check to see what is installed : sudo apt list --installed | grep gdb

This should give you a list of all installed packages containing the pattern "gdb" in their name.
You need sudo rights, obviously.

[boazkmichael]

This is the output

[boazkmichael]

Also one more info to add is that, it asks for authentication each time it opens and it appears with the system icon. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but if it'll be a help in understanding the issue for any of you, then....

[mfgkw]

Depending on the Linux version it might be hard to install the required libncurses 5.

Some time ago the trick Pavel mentioned above (delete gdb from ST toolchain and replace with a symlink to gdb-multiarch) worked for me.