I'm new to to Linux, in this particular case, to Ubuntu. I have a small android project I have to finnish until this Friday and I'm still stuck with the install and preparing of the development envrironment. The only thing I did was install the Eclipse IDE. I'm still missing the SDK, JAVA and anything else that might be needed. Can someone help me through this? It's only because I'm running out of time to develop, or else I would embarc on a deeper investigation of this OS.

I tried the step to install android platforms, through Eclispe->Help->Install New Software, and I got the follwoing error messages, at the end of the process:

    [2012-06-06 17:35:56 - adb] /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb: error 
    while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: 
    No such file or directory

    [2012-06-06 17:35:56 - adb] 'adb version' failed!
    /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared  
    libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
    directory

    [2012-06-06 17:35:56 - adb] Failed to parse the output of 'adb version':
    Standard Output was: Error Output was:
    /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared 
    libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
    directory

    [2012-06-06 17:35:56 - adb] /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb: error  
    while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: 
    No such file or directory

    [2012-06-06 17:35:56 - adb] 'adb version' failed!
    /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared 
    libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
    directory

    [2012-06-06 17:35:56 - adb] Failed to parse the output of 'adb version':
    Standard Output was:
    Error Output was:
    /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared  
    libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or    
    directory

Can anyone help, please??