Android Studio error after ./studio.sh

Question

After ./studio.sh in a terminal I get this error \"tools.jar is not in android studio classpath Please ensure JAVA_HOME points to JDK rather than JRE\"

Answer 1

This seems like permission problem. Someone who packed Android Studio, has the original files under non-root account. If you unpack it as root, the files and dirs has no permission for "other" (just for owner). The person who is packing Android Studio knows a lot about Android and Java, but not much about Unix permissions (uch!). There are two possible solutions:

a) unpack android-studio-bundle-...-linux.tgz as normal user, not as root (this has an advantage - you will be able to update Andriod Studio by clicking menu; but this is generally stupid because you are open to malware attack)

b) fix read permissions for files and dirs for whole android-studio directory with something like: chmod -R +r /opt/android-studio