Android Studio error after ./studio.sh

Question

After ./studio.sh in a terminal I get this error "tools.jar is not in android studio classpath Please ensure JAVA_HOME points to JDK rather than JRE".

I Google it and this is what everybody says: "you need to set your environment variable to JDK path instead of JRE"

I try this two commands

export PATH=${JDK_HOME}:/etc/java-7-openjdk

export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}:/etc/java-7-openjdk

And execute again ./studio.sh and I get the same error

My OS is Linux Mint 14

score 84 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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I solved the problem combining Jerome's and Jarod's answer:

Install JDK -- sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Environment Variable -- sudo nano /etc/environment adding the following line:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-i386
Reboot, and Android Studio starts up. (I had added also a link to studio.sh to the main menu).

Also I just found https://stackoverflow.com/a/17827697/2533809 which seems to have a nice write-up, pretty much the same answer.

(I'm using Debian 7 Wheezy)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Jul 28 '13 at 14:43

dajon

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For x64 JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 – Mate Jan 26 '14 at 01:16
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if you dont have admin rights, you can also `export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib...` as a command, or in your .$(shell)rc – hr0m Jun 15 '14 at 17:23
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You can also just logout and login instead of rebooting – personne3000 Aug 24 '14 at 02:47
Event with `JAVA_HOME` properly set, still the same error. – Hibou57 Feb 09 '16 at 00:05
OK, I was misled by the JDK directory being there, while no JDK was installed (strange). I installed the JDK, and it's OK (just wonder why this JDK directory was there while there was no JDK). – Hibou57 Feb 09 '16 at 00:20

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '13 at 13:25

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I have figured it out. You need to install openjdk-jdk. Opensjdk-jre is not enough. So in terminal all you need to do is write sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk then press yes. Open the android studio bin folder, double click on studio.sh, open in terminal, press enter, and then android studio should work.

answered Jul 27 '13 at 13:25

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This works like a charm and is a lot less hassle than the other alternatives. Might not work for everyone, but worth trying before editing a lot of files. – Watercolours Apr 07 '15 at 11:26

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 20 '14 at 01:26

Here's how I solved the same problem in my system: Thanks for @user2533809

$sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
$ls /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-i386
ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION  bin  docs  include  jre  lib  man  THIRD_PARTY_README
$export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-i386
$./studio.sh

Environment :

kesavan@kesavan-Ideapad-Z460:bin$ uname -a
Linux kesavan-Ideapad-Z460 3.2.0-59-generic-pae #0trisquel1 SMP Sat Feb 22 03:55:17 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
kesavan@kesavan-Ideapad-Z460:bin$

pablopatarca · Answer 4 · 2017-10-03T01:15:30.470

You must be sure that your jre and jdk works fine.

Run

$ sudo apt-get install default-jre

and then...

$ sudo apt-get install default-jdk

to make sure you have your javac path run

$ whereis javac

It should return something like this:

javac: /usr/bin/javac /usr/bin/X11/javac /usr/share/man/man1/javac.1.gz

If it does not work, you can try change the JAVA_HOME in /etc/enviroment file

Append JAVA_HOME="${/.../JVM_PATH}"

For example:

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64"

and then reload this file:

$ source /etc/environment

Source: link

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 19 '14 at 09:17

This seems like permission problem. Someone who packed Android Studio, has the original files under non-root account. If you unpack it as root, the files and dirs has no permission for "other" (just for owner). The person who is packing Android Studio knows a lot about Android and Java, but not much about Unix permissions (uch!). There are two possible solutions:

a) unpack android-studio-bundle-...-linux.tgz as normal user, not as root (this has an advantage - you will be able to update Andriod Studio by clicking menu; but this is generally stupid because you are open to malware attack)

b) fix read permissions for files and dirs for whole android-studio directory with something like: chmod -R +r /opt/android-studio

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 11 '13 at 07:43

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for openjdk: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java

but you would better use the oracle jre to run android studio

answered Jun 11 '13 at 07:43

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and you should make sure already have package openjdk-7-jdk installed – Jarod Jun 11 '13 at 07:53
It doesn't work.. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 .I get the same error – Bryan Villafañe Jun 13 '13 at 05:18
how can i set the java home to the oracle jre? – Nitesh Verma Mar 07 '15 at 11:49

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 07 '15 at 14:11

I solved this by installing the jdk. This sounds annoyingly simple but I missed it. I thought I Had installed the jdk, but I had actually installed the jre.

Wrong:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Right:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

As soon as I did that, it started up fine for me. The things we miss sometimes....

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 11 '14 at 06:16

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Although I have JDK installed and was pointing to it, i didn't have java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel installed (Fedora).

answered Sep 11 '14 at 06:16

David

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I am using Fedora 20 and this was my issue also. Once I install the devel package and had my environment variable set, Android Studio fired right up! Thank you. – AgnosticDev Nov 09 '14 at 14:47

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 17 '15 at 16:56

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This is what I did to solve the problem:

cd /opt/ (where android-studio directory is located)

sudo chown -R your_user:your_user android-studio

(where your_user is... yes your username :) )

answered May 17 '15 at 16:56

Caribe95

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 19 '16 at 00:33

the solution for me was to modify studio.sh and add JAVA_HOME as a variable:

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Locate a JDK installation directory which will be used to run the IDE.
# Try (in order): STUDIO_JDK, ../jre, JDK_HOME, JAVA_HOME, "java" in PATH.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------

     JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-i386/

if [ -n "$STUDIO_JDK" -a -x "$STUDIO_JDK/bin/java" ]; then (etc..)

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Nov 08 '16 at 23:14

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This below trick work for me , Check your app dependencies in build.gradle(Project:AppName) .

Try the latest build.gradle version.

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.1'

answered Nov 08 '16 at 23:14

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Dec 30 '17 at 21:26

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You have to have the latest JDK. I solved it by
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
(Note the '8' in there)

answered Dec 30 '17 at 21:26

Peter Stallinga

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