Android sdkmanager tool not found

Question

I newly started using Ubuntu 18.0 LTS this week, switching from Windows, and wanted to install Android Studio and Flutter back. I followed all the steps as said to install Android Studio and it is working fine with all the SDKs. However, when I wanted to install Flutter, it gives exception:

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
Unhandled exception:
Exception: Android sdkmanager tool not found (/usr/lib/android-sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager).
Try re-installing or updating your Android SDK,
visit https://flutter.io/setup/#android-setup for detailed instructions.

Ask for the stacktrace if you need it.

The closest issue I could find was: How to install SDK manager on linux ubuntu 16.04? but I couldn't really understand how to work the instructions. I might need you to be really clear in the instructions because I'm new to the linux platform.

tools/package.xml :

<ns2:repository xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.android.com/repository/android/common/01"
            xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/addon2/01"
            xmlns:ns4="http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/sys-img2/01"
            xmlns:ns5="http://schemas.android.com/repository/android/generic/01"
            xmlns:ns6="http://schemas.android.com/sdk/android/repo/repository2/01">
      <license id="apache-2.0" type="text">Please refer to Apache v2.0 license</license>
  <localPackage path="tools" obsolete="false">
<type-details xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              xsi:type="ns5:genericDetailsType"/>
<revision>
  <major>25</major>
  <minor>0</minor>
  <micro>0</micro>
</revision>
<display-name>Android SDK Tools</display-name>
<uses-license ref="apache-2.0"/>
<dependencies>
  <dependency path="platform-tools">
    <min-revision>
      <major>20</major>
    </min-revision>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
  </localPackage>
 </ns2:repository>

Flutter doctor -v output:

[✓] Flutter (Channel beta, v0.7.3, on Linux, locale en_IN)
• Flutter version 0.7.3 at /home/andi/Downloads/flutter
• Framework revision 3b309bda07 (13 days ago), 2018-08-28 12:39:24 -0700
• Engine revision af42b6dc95
• Dart version 2.1.0-dev.1.0.flutter-ccb16f7282

[!] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 28.0.2)
• Android SDK at /home/andi/Android/Sdk
• Android NDK location not configured (optional; useful for native profiling support)
• Platform android-28, build-tools 28.0.2
• ANDROID_HOME = /home/andi/Android/Sdk
• Java binary at: /home/andi/Downloads/android-studio-ide-173.4907809-linux/android-studio/jre/bin/java
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b01)
! Some Android licenses not accepted.  To resolve this, run: flutter doctor --android-licenses

[✓] Android Studio (version 3.1)
• Android Studio at /home/andi/Downloads/android-studio-ide-173.4907809-linux/android-studio
• Flutter plugin version 28.0.1
• Dart plugin version 173.4700
• Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b01)

[!] Connected devices
! No devices available

! Doctor found issues in 2 categories.

score 84 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 13 '20 at 18:45

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I had this issue after installed on my KUbuntu.

You need to open AndroidStudio then go to Tools -> SDK Manager then go to SDK Tools tab, uncheck the option Hide Obsolete Packages

You will see the option of Android SDK Tools (Obsolete), check the option and continue the process download and installation.

edited Mar 13 '20 at 18:45

Aditya Kresna Permana

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answered Mar 02 '20 at 13:39

zmofsx

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I download android-studio-ide-192.6241897-linux.tar.gz and flutter_linux_v1.12.13+hotfix.8-stable.tar.xz. This is a bug of Android Studio I think. – zmofsx Mar 02 '20 at 13:42
Well this did the trick for me. Thanks a bunch; I was about to give up on Flutter with Ubuntu. – Jeremy Trpka Mar 07 '20 at 05:23
Solved on Linux Mint 19 !! – Nikhil Mar 13 '20 at 19:17
Solved on MacOS Catalina – Elad Mar 22 '20 at 08:56
Solved in Ubuntu 20 – Sergio Rinaudo Apr 26 '20 at 14:59
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Solved in MacOs Catalina..Thanks – Mahesh Kavathiya Jun 07 '20 at 05:36
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Solved in MacOs Big Sur. Thanks! – aiherrera Jan 15 '21 at 04:49
Solved in MacOs Monterey. Thanks! – Jochem Feb 13 '22 at 14:50

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '20 at 23:32

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I'm using Manjaro Linux. After set my ANDROID_HOME and install Android SDK Command-line tools (latest) from Android Studio.

And ran:

flutter doctor --android-licenses

$ mkdir ~/Android/Sdk/tools/bin

And created a link to the real path

$ ln -s ~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager ~/Android/Sdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager

Ran again and accept all

$ flutter doctor --android-licenses

flutter doctor

answered Mar 13 '20 at 23:32

Adônis Nina Ribeiro

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This should probably be the accepted answer as it uses the latest SDK tools instead of installing an older version. – Marcelo Mar 17 '20 at 16:43
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This is the better and correct answer. You also don't need to create the symbolic link anymore. Flutter automatically finds the sdkmanager under `cmdline-tools`. – Sajib Acharya Apr 13 '20 at 18:46

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 14 '21 at 20:15

If you come across this error when accepting SDK licenses.

➜  ~ flutter doctor --android-licenses
Android sdkmanager not found. Update to the latest Android SDK and ensure that the cmdline-tools are installed
to resolve this

the structure of the initial android-sdk was :

android-sdk
├── build-tools
│   ├── 29.0.3 -> debian
│   └── debian
│       └── lib
├── cmdline-tools
│   ├── tools
│   │   ├── bin

and the way i was able to configure android licenses was to change the structure of the android-sdk directory by changing 'tools' to 'latest'

android-sdk
├── build-tools
│   ├── 29.0.3 -> debian
│   └── debian
│       └── lib
├── cmdline-tools
│   ├── latest
│   │   ├── bin
|   |   |

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 31 '23 at 10:11

To fix the Android sdkmanager not found warning:

Open Android Studio
From the top toolbar, select Tools > SDK Manager.
Select the SDK Tools tab, with a blue underline.
Uncheck 'Hide Obsolete Packages'.
Tick Android SDK Command-line Tools (latest).

6. Click Ok

Screenshot of Android Studio Electric Eel.

nobody special · Answer 5 · 2018-09-10T14:07:42.607

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I had this issue when I installed on Ubuntu. You need to set env variable ANDROID_HOME to the path you installed the android sdk for flutter to work.

So assuming you installed the SDK in your home directory, open a terminal and issue this command

ANDROID_HOME=~/Android-SDK flutter doctor

If that worked, then add the env variable to your profile to make it persistent, by adding

export ANDROID_HOME=~/Android-SDK

to your ~/.profile script, then relogin to Ubuntu.

Obviously if you installed the android sdk in a different directory, you just need to replace ~/ with the directory, so for example if you installed the sdk to /opt, then the command would be ANDROID_HOME=/opt/Android-SDK flutter doctor

Having checked my android sdk + flutter setup, I also ended up adding the following to my path

~/Android-SDK/platform-tools

You can test this before messing with your profile, by the following command in a terminal

PATH=$PATH:~/Android-SDK/platform-tools ANDROID_HOME=~/Android-SDK flutter doctor

And again change ~/Android-SDK to wherever you installed the android SDK. If it works, change your profile accordingly and relogin to Ubuntu.

edited Sep 10 '18 at 14:07

answered Sep 10 '18 at 13:02

nobody special

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No, the first command didn't work. If it helps, I followed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26256279/how-to-set-android-home-path-in-ubuntu-please-provide-the-steps to set the variable. – Aditya Nigam Sep 10 '18 at 13:18
@AdityaNigam I found setting up flutter to play nicely with android sdk a pita, and I'm experienced with linux, so don't despair. I added something new to my answer, give it a try. – nobody special Sep 10 '18 at 14:08
@AdityaNigam It looks like those instructions you followed in that other link told you to put the export in .bashrc which is okay but will only affect the bash cli shell, so if you run your sdk from the cli, it's good. But if you run from the gui, you may find problems, whereas the .profile script sets up the environment for other shells, so I would (as I did) recommend setting up your envrionment in your .profile script. – nobody special Sep 10 '18 at 14:14
So i did gedit ~/.profile and in the end added **export ANDROID_HOME="/usr/lib/android-sdk/"** . Also, did you want me to put the flutter sdk folder into the same location? Because it still says **flutter: command not found** – Aditya Nigam Sep 10 '18 at 14:31
@AdityaNigam Your flutter can be anywhere as long as you setup the environment to point to it, and the fact that your flutter doctor command is running suggests that you have, so leave it as it is. The only things I have setup in my .profile script concerning android are export **PATH="$HOME/Android-SDK/platform-tools":$HOME/android-studio/bin:"$PATH"** and **export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android-SDK**, and although it was a long time ago, that's all I remember having to do. I stopped using flutter, preferring plain java sdk, so I guess things might have changed. – nobody special Sep 10 '18 at 14:58
Remember that you have to logout and login to Ubuntu after changing .profile for the changes to take effect. – nobody special Sep 10 '18 at 14:59
I did that, and I guess adding the path like you said helped it too, thanks for your time. – Aditya Nigam Sep 10 '18 at 15:18

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 23 '22 at 13:59

I'm always puzzled why an installation package shouldn't contain all necessary dependencies but cause trouble (perhaps fun) to so many people?

Anyway, I'd like to add something to the zmofsx solution because, for me, the solution didn't fix the problem completely, and I had to do a few more steps described below.

Hope those may help someone in troubleshooting.

So after the steps described above, I did the following in the console:

flutter doctor --android-licenses

Hit Y to show all the licences and Y to each of them. Then

flutter doctor

And this is my console output:

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.0.5, on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS 5.4.0-122-generic, locale en_GB.UTF-8)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 33.0.0)
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
[✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
[✓] Android Studio (version 2021.2)
[✓] Android Studio
[✓] VS Code (version 1.69.2)
[✓] Connected device (2 available)
[✓] HTTP Host Availability

• No issues found!

Then tested the result:

mkdir flutter_example
cd flutter_example
flutter create .
flutter run -d linux

And got the app running:

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 16 '23 at 08:46

For those using pop_os 22 and have installed the android studio using flatpak the problem is that the android studio is isolated so you need to config the path for android-sdk and android-studio-dir

flutter config --android-sdk ~/Android/Sdk
flutter config -android-studio-dir path/android-studio

for pop_os installed from shop you'll find it here /home//.local/share/flatpak/app/com.google.AndroidStudio/current/active/files/extra/android-studio

then you will run flutter doctor --android-licenses and accepts all licenses so now flutter doctor will not show a error.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 13 '22 at 12:37

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use the tool of config from Flutter

flutter config --android-sdk ~/Android/Sdk/
flutter config --android-studio-dir ~/android-studio/

after accept licences flutter doctor --android-licenses

answered Oct 13 '22 at 12:37

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