Same problem for me. Launchpad is EXP430F5529LP, version 1.5. Tried jumpers horizontal, vertical and cross for Rx/Tx. None of that worked. USB 2.0 on laptop, Dell D410 running Ubuntu 14.04LTS.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
I installed energia. I can connect and programme an example called "Blink" that comes part of energia. But when I run mspdebug directly on command line, I still get:
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tilib: can't find libmsp430.so: libmsp430.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I have copied the library from energia folder to /usr/bin w