Error: Cannot run aapt

Question

When I compile an android application ( I tried with the sample ones from the sdk). I get this error:

>Error executing aapt: Cannot run program "/home/roel/projects/sdk/build-tools/18.0.1/aapt": >error=2, No such file or directory: error=2, No such file or directory    KeyChainDemo        >line 1 Android ADT Problem

But aapt is at that location?

>[roel@archUSB 18.0.1]$ ls /home/roel/projects/sdk/build-tools/18.0.1/

>NOTICE.txt  aidl     dx   libLLVM.so  libbcinfo.so  llvm-rs-cc    source.properties
>**aapt**        dexdump  lib  libbcc.so   libclang.so   renderscript

Note: I also get the error "R cannot be resolved", but I'm pretty sure that when I solve problem 1, I also solve this problem

Possible duplicate of [Android SDK on a 64-bit linux machine](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2710499/android-sdk-on-a-64-bit-linux-machine) — jk2K, Aug 31 '16 at 02:14

Benjamin · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-31T18:15:14.977

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Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS solution:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib lib32z1 lib32stdc++6

Reason: aapt needs 32-bit libraries installed

edited Oct 31 '15 at 18:15

answered Aug 29 '14 at 14:42

Benjamin

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Unable to locate package – Vasil Valchev Feb 04 '15 at 16:11
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Just comment the reason, aapt need 32 bit libs installed – Alvaro Oct 30 '15 at 13:55
Even a better solution than the [Google proposed one](http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=tools) – elenfoiro78 Mar 13 '16 at 20:21
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What a horribly useless error message! Shame on the dev(s) who wrote that! – Theodore R. Smith Apr 26 '16 at 06:00

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '13 at 10:51

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The problem was my 64bit OS , I missed some 32 bit libs ;)

answered Aug 04 '13 at 10:51

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I'm having the same issue... on Ubuntu 13.04 64bits. What libs did you install? – hector6872 Sep 25 '13 at 23:27
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@h_rules: `apt-get install ia32-libs` as instructed at http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html (see "Troubleshooting Ubuntu") – Jonik Oct 15 '13 at 07:40
ubuntu 12.04 64bit , was working on Android studio , got it done for me too – kommradHomer Jan 20 '14 at 00:56
Thank you that worked. Following is the solution for Debian 7. – Sileria Feb 08 '14 at 06:31
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On Ubuntu 14.04 ia32-libs is deprecated so I had to install lib32z1 and lib32stdc++6 – krd May 10 '14 at 00:11
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Why is your sudden discovery marked as an answer? :D – Dropout Jun 27 '14 at 09:01
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I think the answer by Benjamin deserves to be marked as the accepted answer. Can you please accept that. – Mohd Farid Jan 06 '16 at 06:27

score 20 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '15 at 12:41

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SDK tools 24 has a bug, build will fail with the same error. Should be fixed in the new version, for now the workaround in tools/ant/build.xml place

<property name="aapt" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/aapt" />
<property name="aidl" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/aidl" />
<property name="dx" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/dx" />
<property name="zipalign" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/zipalign" />

at the end of the xml in the root tag. Replace 22.0.1 with your build tools version

answered Jun 13 '15 at 12:41

Thorin Schiffer

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Life saviour is here guys – Aditya Singh Jun 16 '15 at 07:17
You really helped me. – Santhana Jun 19 '15 at 00:06
Or can just specify **executable=** in his build.xml without the **dir=** statement. – IgorGanapolsky Aug 05 '16 at 15:58

score 7 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 08 '14 at 06:32

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Debian 7 Wheezy solution:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

answered Feb 08 '14 at 06:32

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score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 22 '14 at 15:24

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Ubuntu 13.10 solution:

Append

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse

to /etc/apt/sources.list.

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

answered Feb 22 '14 at 15:24

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score 2 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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I had this same problem today. If anyone from the future is having this problem, try the solution here

Programs running aapt in android sdk from shell and from sbt

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Aug 16 '13 at 17:07

pal

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 07 '14 at 18:55

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I had the same problem today, this helped me.

Arch Linux 64bit.

answered Feb 07 '14 at 18:55

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Scott Stensland · Answer 8 · 2017-11-07T11:08:26.353

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aapt is a 32 bit application and will fail on a 64 bit box until 32 bits are enabled and libs added

This is current solution as of Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures  #  if below was never run this returns nothing ... afterwards it will return : i386
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get -qqy update
sudo apt-get -qqy install libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386

edited Nov 07 '17 at 11:08

answered Jan 04 '17 at 19:23

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