Yes I saw the reply to yourself however the posts on Google+ mentioned that the Oracle version needed to be installed. Also the Android developer site has been ambivalent about upgrading Ubuntu probably due to Unity. I have looked at other versions.
On Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:17:46 AM UTC-7, Matt Kevins wrote: > > I'm not sure you saw my reply to myself.. but I did get it working on > Ubuntu 12.10. I didn't realize that I didn't have OpenJDK installed. I had > thought I did because the JRE package name had the letters "JDK" (OpenJDK). > Once I installed the actual OpenJDK from the repos, Android Studio > installed and worked, despite the warning message about using the OpenJDK > in place of Oracle's. > > As a side note, I am 12.10 Ubuntu Studio (which uses XFCE instead of > Unity). I highly recommend it if you don't like the direction that they're > going with Unity. > > On Friday, May 17, 2013 3:31:23 PM UTC-4, jtoolsdev wrote: >> >> On Ubuntu it's the .sh but I hadn't tried any troubleshooting. Just >> wanted to see if it worked out of the box. The .sh file warns about using >> OpenJDK. I have Oracle installed but probably not the version it is >> looking for (upgrading Java 64-bit can be a pain). I'm still using 10.04 >> Ubuntu since Unity is not a developer's GUI. Looks like the .sh file needs >> some mods to give the correct error message. More on this over on the >> Google+ comments to the blog article. >> >> >> On Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:05:22 PM UTC-7, Paul-Peter Tournaris wrote: >>> >>> Basically it's the bat configuration that they use on Android Studio. If >>> you check it (inside the bin folder of Android Studio) you will see where >>> it checks for JDKs and you will be able to solve the problem! >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 3:56 AM, jtoolsdev <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> So what might break if the Java configuration is changed? Changing >>>> Java configurations is not something that developers do everyday. There >>>> probably needs to be more complete instructions. Eclipse works fine with >>>> my current configuration. I may wait on Studio until I see what problems >>>> and solutions others have. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:50:29 PM UTC-7, Matt Kevins wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I am following the instructions for installing Android Studio Preview >>>>> on Linux. I am running Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit. This is the specific message >>>>> I >>>>> got: >>>>> >>>>> 'tools.jar' is not in the Android Studio classpath. >>>>>> Please ensure JAVA_HOME points to JDK rather than JRE. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I then tried: >>>>> >>>>> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/**default-java >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> based on advice on askubuntu.com, to no avail. Does anyone know what >>>>> the issue might be, or how I can go resolving this? I would really like >>>>> to >>>>> try out Android Studio, since it looks really cool based on the >>>>> presentation during the IO keynote. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Android Developers" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Παύλος-Πέτρος Τουρνάρης* >>> *Android & Software Developer* >>> >>> - *http://goo.gl/TsJ8u* >>> - *http://acschedule.org* >>> >>> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
