Installing android-sdk or adt-bundle on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

So on my previous laptop I've installed the android-sdk-linux and Eclipse separately without the adt-bundle , without any issues whatsoever. Also, I installed it under my home directory.

Now that I have a new laptop (clean slate) to start with, I wanted to try and install the adt-bundle into the correct/conventional directory (which I understand is /usr/local/ ).

But after extracting the bundle into /usr/local/ I get weird issues like adb not being an executable, etc. Opening Eclipse yields a lot of errors regarding the SDK , ADT , and adb .

What is the correct method of doing this? A step-by-step or otherwise comprehensive set of methods would be greatly appreciated.

Also, is there any reason why I should consider installing android-sdk-linux and Eclipse separately instead of using the adt-bundle ?

Thanks in advance :). This will help me learn more about Linux filesystems and administrations a little bit too!

Answer 1

It seems that the problem is in Linux filesystem permissions of your folder. In case of home directory the owner of the files is your user, in case of /usr/local/ the owner is root. You should try to change the owner of the folder:

chown -R <owner_name>:<owner_group> <your_dir>

As for reasons to install sdk and Eclipse separately, I don't think that you'll find critical one. Using bundle it's easier to install everything to work with Android (I think that Eclipse in this case is already configured, however I do not know precisely because I've never used this approach).