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Jesse W at Z - Given up on SE
Jesse W at Z - Given up on SE

Reputation: 1748

"android: can't find sdkmanager.jar"

I downloaded the Android SDK tools from https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html which gave me a zip file called tools_r25.2.3-linux.zip. Unziped, it produced a folder called tools, containing the sdkmanager, android. When I tried to run it, it failed with the error message above.

I set ANDROID_HOME to the tools directory, but it still failed.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 5595

Answers (4)

zack
zack

Reputation: 3198

unzip tools into e.g. ~/android-sdk, so it will live at ~/android-sdk/tools

then in ~/.bashrc

export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/android-sdk" ANDROID_TOOLS="$ANDROID_HOME/tools" ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools" export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_TOOLS:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS;

then run sdkmanager

Upvotes: 0

L. D. James
L. D. James

Reputation: 1719

The zip file can be opened anywhere. The important thing is to leave the name "tools" and it's files intact.

Run the android program from the tools parent directory as:

$ ./tools/android

This will update the tools parent directory (the one from where you are running ./tools/android) with a number of folders and tools.

I name this parent directory sdk. I also place the whole directory (named sdk) in a folder by the name of the downloaded version.

Now for consistency of my programming environment I bind mount this sdk to a folder in the /opt directory so that it'll be available system-wide.

The hierarchy becomes:

/home/userid/android_r25.2.3/sdk

Now I make a folder in the /opt/ directory called /opt/android/sdk.

My /etc/fstab entry for this becomes:

/home/userid/android_r25.2.3/sdk  /opt/android/sdk none bind

It's mounted with:

$ sudo mount /opt/android/sdk

The only thing that changes with new versions or new installs is the location of where the zip file is opened. replace the /home/userid/android_r25.2.3/sdk with where you extract the zipfile and nothing else would ever have to be changed.

The PATH variable will consistently become:

$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/android/sdk/tools:/opt/android/sdk/platform-tools

And, of course, the eclipse android configuration becomes:

/opt/android/sdk

Using this as a consistent procedure makes reinstalls and installs on new machines very seamless... having only one variable that might change, and that is where the package is extracted.

Upvotes: 4

Jesse W at Z - Given up on SE
Jesse W at Z - Given up on SE

Reputation: 1748

It turns out that ANDROID_HOME needs to be set to the parent directory, with the contents of the zip file (a single directory named tools) contained within it. Once I did that, it worked fine. This seemed confusing enough to be worth adding to stackoverflow.

Upvotes: 17

Kalle Richter
Kalle Richter

Reputation: 8728

One more issue is that one has to leave the name of the unzip result tools untouched and move it into a to be created directory in order to allow any version management (or leave it in your home directory if a information-free directory name like "tools" doesn't distrub you). Then set ANDROID_HOME like @JesseW explained.

Upvotes: 3

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