Android Studio 4.1 Canary 9 201.6466190-linux distribution corrupted?

Question

At first I've tried to update Android Studio 4.1 Canary 8 to Canary 9 as usual through update dialog. At the first start Canary 9 have thrown error:

Missing essential plugin:

org.jetbrains.android

Please reinstall Android Studio from scratch.

So I downloaded Canary 9 distribution from official source (https://developer.android.com/studio/preview). Deleted Canary 8 catalog and extracted tar.gz with Canary 9. Then launched android-studio/bin/studio.sh with the same error.

I renamed ~/.AndroidStudioPreview4.1 catalog and started studio once more. Same error.

Now I rolled back to Canary 8 from my backup. Any help how to move from Canary 8 to 9?

i couldn't find any statement or expected new release , so i guess we'll have to wait — tiagocarvalho92, May 09 '20 at 09:31
This is the preview release. You can find it by link in my post. — twerq, May 10 '20 at 07:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 10 '20 at 18:29

Basically this issue mentioned in release notes

In Android Studio 4.1 Canary 9, you may see the following error when first launching Android Studio after upgrading:

missing essential plugin org.jetbrains.android

This can happen when you import your settings from a previous version of Android Studio. Typically, this means you have a locally installed Kotlin plugin that is not compatible with the new IDE.

To fix this issue, remove the Kotlin directory from the following locations:

Linux: ~/.local/share/Google/AndroidStudioPreview4.1

Windows: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Google\AndroidStudioPreview4.1

MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudioPreview4.1

Because there is no Kotlin plugin compatible with Canary 9 currently available from JetBrains, we have bundled our own Kotlin plugin with the Canary 9 update, so you don't need to manually install a Kotlin plugin. source

At the same time by path ~/.local/share/Google/AndroidStudioPreview4.1 no such file or directory. The only catalog named AndroidStudioPreview4.1 founded by ./.cache/Google/AndroidStudioPreview4.1. So I deleted it without any effect on subject issue.

Then I completely removed ~/.AndroidStudioPreview4.1 instead of renaming which I'd done before. And resolved the issue.

I believe Google bundle Kotlin plugin in a different way JetBrains do. So paths differ. Maybe path for Windows to. I believe paths should be corrected in release notes.

Solution:

rm -r ~/.AndroidStudioPreview4.1

I also had to not import the previous settings when starting Android Studio for the first time on Windows 10 — malrok44, May 11 '20 at 19:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 05 '20 at 07:35

Solved this problem by using terminal in Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

toumbou@toumbou-Aspire-V3-471:~$ cd ~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config
toumbou@toumbou-Aspire-V3-471:~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config$ ls
codestyles  disabled_plugins.txt  inspection  plugins    tasks     user.token
colors      disabled_update.txt   options     port.lock  terminal  workspace
toumbou@toumbou-Aspire-V3-471:~/.AndroidStudio4.0/config$

and open the file via nautilus

toumbou@toumbou-Aspire-V3-471:~/.AndroidStudio4.0$ nautilus config

Then move the config folder and remove also the kotlinRefractoring.xml and also I removed the caches of my previous project so now I got it running fine again with some tweaks all things ares fine.

Thank you Brewton and sorry for my bad english – Toumoudf Oct 16 '20 at 22:30 — Toumoudf, Oct 16 '20 at 22:30

Android Studio 4.1 Canary 9 201.6466190-linux distribution corrupted?

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