Android Studio mergeDebugResources issue

Question

I seem to be having difficulties switching to Android Studio. I created a new Project in Android Studio 0.4.3 on Ubuntu 13.10. but I have been plagued with issues. I originally had issues on a windows box when it was first distributed which is why i ignored it until recently. I fixed a few things with gradle but seem to still be having other issues and I ended up following a few suggestions from the links bellow though nothing helped. Does anyone have any suggestions.

mergedebugresources-exception

installing android studio in ubuntu

How to Install Android studio in ubuntu 13.10

I've also installed fastboot and adb in terminal and I have also arbitrarily uninstalled whatever jdk I was using prior had and re-installed java 7 instead of 8 (since it would not install for some reason) via

sudo apt-get purge openjdk*
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java7-installer*
sudo apt-get purge oracle-java7-installer*
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java8-installer* 
sudo apt-get purge oracle-java8-installer*
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*java*
sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

bellow is the error message i am currently receiving

Execution failed for task ':helloandroid:mergeDebugResources'.

Error: Failed to run command: /home/kyle/Development/android-studio/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/aapt s -i /home/kyle/Development/AndroidStudioProjects/HelloAndroid/helloandroid/build/exploded-bundles/ComAndroidSupportAppcompatV71901.aar/res/drawable-hdpi/abc_textfield_search_right_default_holo_light.9.png -o /home/kyle/Development/AndroidStudioProjects/HelloAndroid/helloandroid/build/res/all/debug/drawable-hdpi/abc_textfield_search_right_default_holo_light.9.png Error Code: 127 Output: /home/kyle/Development/android-studio/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/aapt: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

Use lib32z1 - worked for me.

sudo apt-get install lib32z1