[SOLVED] MATLAB Support Package for Arduino: cannot program board (R2018a)

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Hello, I am using MATLAB R2018a on Linux Mint 20.3 and have installed the Support Package for Arduino Hardware. I am using an Arduino UNO R3 board which I have connected to the port identified as
/dev/ttyAMC0
From my MATLAB GUI, I run the command
arduinosetup
to program the server onto my board (with the board connected via USB), select USB, then the board name "Uno" and the port "/dev/ttyACM0" both of which are recognized from the drop down lists, along with the libraries selected by default (Servo, SPI and I2C). But when I click PROGRAM, the process fails.
The RX and TX LEDs on the Arduino do not blink either, like they do when Im progamming from the IDE. I have followed all the steps as listed on the Installation guide but am stuck at setup. I have attached error log. I have attached the error log as a text file because it was too large (nik is my username, /home/nik/Code/MATLAB is my path where I store scripts and where MATLAB opens)
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Shovnik Paul
Shovnik Paul on 5 Jul 2022
Ok so I figured this out and am thus answering my own question (if the moderators think deleting this would be more appropriate, please let me know!) . So basically, the second last line in the error log gave away the problem:
error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Basically Arduino's avrdude was looking for a library file which it could not find. I looked up this particular file and people on other Unix forums said that it has been replaced with the ncurses library file, so I ran the following command to see if I what ncurses library files I had installed currently:
$ find /usr/lib -name "libncurses*"
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6.2
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/gui/libncurses_plugin.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6.2
From this list, libncurses.so.6 seemed to be the most appropriate, which I symlinked to the library file that avrdude was looking for: libtinfo.so.5 in a standard directory /usr/lib where it could be found:
$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5
This fixed the issue for me. Here are some links that helped me:
  1. Arduino Forum Post
  2. Clang: libtinfo.so.5 could not be found
Hope this helps.

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