Ubuntu – Problems with Eclipse and Android SDK

64-bitandroideclipseopenjdkshared library

I installed Eclipse, openjdk6 and downloaded and extracted the sdk manager file.

Now, When I created an Android project I got the following error:

2012-06-06 18:44:40 - contactManager] /home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/aapt: 
error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory

And this one when I tried to create an AVD Manager:

[2012-06-06 19:00:18 - SDK Manager] /home/catia/android-sdks/tools/mksdcard: error 
while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No 
such file or directory 
[2012-06-06 19:00:18 - SDK Manager] Failed to create the SD card.
[2012-06-06 19:00:18 - SDK Manager] Failed to create sdcard in the AVD folder.

Best Answer

This problem is occurring because the Android SDK is compiled for a 32-bit GNU/Linux system, and your Ubuntu system is a 64-bit GNU/Linux system. The solution should be easy (since Ubuntu fully supports running 32-bit programs on a 64-bit OS)--just install the 32-bit versions of the libraries it needs.

The simplest and easiest way to do this is to install the 32-bit versions of all the most commonly used libraries, by installing the ia32-libs Install ia32-libs package. You can do this in the Software Center or in the Terminal with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Originally ia32-libs was provided because Ubuntu, in its default configuration, didn't support installing 32-bit Ubuntu packages on a 64-bit system. Now that this is fully supported by default, the ia32-libs package just causes the same 32-bit packages to be installed on your 64-bit system that would be installed on a minimal 32-bit system. (So for anyone who is worried this might not work now that multarch is supported by default: it still works.)

Source: Android/Eclipse Installation on Ubuntu 11.04 - aapt and adb not working properly
See also: Eclipse Android Plugin — libncurses.so.5

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