Unable to launch

[gfelot]

Hi Paolo Rotolo,

I'm on a fresh install of Ubuntu 15.04. I installed via your repo Android Studio but the program doesn't appear anywhere. Even via a terminal my PC didn't found the bin or something related to.

Thanks.

[paolorotolo]

Hi,
thanks for your report.

Please, open a terminal and paste this command:
/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh

Can you tell me if it works :)?

[chemouna]

I had the same problem on ubuntu 14 , with /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh it launched it ... thank you

[paolorotolo]

Are you using Unity or GNOME? Also Ubuntu i386 or amd64?

[chemouna]

Unity and amd64

[milesimarco]

Same problem here: no app appearing in the dash. Ubuntu 15.04 Unity 64 bit

With /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh the software is launched.

[paolorotolo]

Could you paste here what's in android-studio.desktop file in /usr/share/applications please?

nano /usr/share/applications/android-studio.desktop

[maelsan]

Me too (Ubuntu 15.04 Unity & 64 Bits).
Here's the content of .desktop file ->

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Name=Android Studio
Exec=/opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh
Comment=Integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging.
Icon=androidstudio
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Development;IDE;

[mrzulkarnine]

I got this error:

Start Failed: Internal error. Please report to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.intellij.util.lang.ClassPath
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)
at com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader.createClassPath(UrlClassLoader.java:179)
at com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader.(UrlClassLoader.java:173)
at com.intellij.util.lang.UrlClassLoader$Builder.get(UrlClassLoader.java:128)
at com.intellij.ide.BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.initClassLoader(BootstrapClassLoaderUtil.java:68)
at com.intellij.ide.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:32)
at com.intellij.idea.Main.main(Main.java:83)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.misc.Resource not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/bootstrap.jar,file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/extensions.jar,file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/util.jar,file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/jdom.jar,file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/log4j.jar,file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/trove4j.jar,file:/opt/android-studio/bin/../lib/jna.jar], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.14)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.14)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.14)
at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.14)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)
...6 more

Also, an UI exception occurred on attempt to show above message:
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)
at com.intellij.util.containers.ConcurrentIntObjectHashMap.getUnsafe(ConcurrentIntObjectHashMap.java:2787)
at com.intellij.util.containers.ConcurrentIntObjectHashMap.(ConcurrentIntObjectHashMap.java:2752)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)
at com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil.createConcurrentIntObjectMap(ContainerUtil.java:2334)
at com.intellij.util.containers.ConcurrentRefValueIntObjectHashMap.(ConcurrentRefValueIntObjectHashMap.java:31)
at com.intellij.util.containers.ConcurrentWeakValueIntObjectHashMap.(ConcurrentWeakValueIntObjectHashMap.java:31)
at com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil.createConcurrentIntObjectWeakValueMap(ContainerUtil.java:2362)
at com.intellij.openapi.util.Key.(Key.java:38)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)
at com.intellij.util.ui.UIUtil.(UIUtil.java:202)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)
at com.intellij.idea.Main.showMessage(Main.java:234)
at com.intellij.idea.Main.showMessage(Main.java:217)
at com.intellij.idea.Main.main(Main.java:86)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not find 'theUnsafe' field in the class sun.misc.Unsafe
at com.intellij.util.concurrency.AtomicFieldUpdater.getUnsafe(AtomicFieldUpdater.java:44)
at com.intellij.util.concurrency.AtomicFieldUpdater.(AtomicFieldUpdater.java:38)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.14)

Please assist.

[mrzulkarnine]

Nevermind, I fixed it by installing jdk 7

[loide]

I solved this using 'sudo desktop-file-install android-studio.desktop' on /usr/share/applications

[bibz]

I experimented this issue on Linux Mint 17.1.
@loide's solution works like a charm, thanks!

[paolorotolo]

Awesome guys, I'm going to add the tip in FAQ. 👍

[Rafnuss]

Same problem appear after installing jdk 8 after android studio. @loide 's solution worked for me ! @paolorotolo , I can't see the trick on the FAQ, did you just forgot to update it or am I just missing the info somewhere ?

[FranklinYu]

@loide's suggestion

sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/android-studio.desktop

works on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Thanks a log!

[ghost]

@loide 's solution works on LinuxMint17.3 x64 cinema

[codingyourlife]

I had the same problem and on my second attempt on a new machine I found this to be prequisits:
#Install Java8
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

#configure Java8 (in my case I had to select 1)
sudo update-alternatives --config java

#this stuff is required to avoid mksdcard error on first run of the studio
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6

#press ctrl+w and search for "MaxPermSize" and remove the line
sudo nano /opt/android-studio/bin/studio64.vmoptions
sudo nano /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.vmoptions

Then install AS and reboot. Everything should work then.