Can't update Android Studio - only download

Question

I have not updated my Android Studio for a while and am presented with this dialog box when trying to update:

Answer 1

I found a solution without reinstalling the AS!

As the sollution in https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=56068 goes, We can manually download the patch.

But for examble, if I put the number of current version and newest version in the URL http://dl.google.com/android/studio/patches/AI-(current_version)-(newest_version)-patch-unix.jar, I got a 404 error, which means there is not a patch between my version and the current version.

At last, I found the solution. For example, the version of my Android Studio is 141.2135290, then I find the version closest to my version (just now is 141.2178183) instead of the newest version "141.2288178", and I got the patch!

But unfortunately, I have modified the file in the folder of Android Studio, so the patch didn't work well, otherwise it will work well.

Answer 2

Try this :

Go to Help > Check for Update

and this worked for me - 1.0 to 1.1.

Answer 3

If anybody uses Ubuntu and has the same problem....
For me, AS always crashed after the download of a patch was complete. Then I wanted to figure out what's going on by launching AS from the console to see the output (I have AS as icon in Dash menu and usually launch it from there). After launching AS from console I clicked the update popup again, it downloaded but suddenly, it did not crash anymore. Suddenly it asked me if I want to exit a running background process, I clicked "exit", AS installed the patch and rebooted (what is usually not working either).

Answer 4

Here is how you update when you are not presented with a Update and Restart button, but instead only have a Download button. The solution involves a side-by-side installation, which is an acceptable and supported configuration¹

1. Download the zip file
2. Extract the zip file in the same location folder your previous installation (adjacent to, not overlaying) Note here that I already had two versions of Android Studio running. The executables under the Android Studio folder, and another set of code under the android-studio-beta folder. The android-studio-dev is the folder created from the downloaded zip file.
3. Start ../bin/studio64.exe inside the the unzipped folder and select the appropriate place to pull your configuration from. Note that if you are unsure of which configuration is connected to which install, you may examine the .home file: Note here that the AndroidStudioPreview2.2 configuration set is aligned with the installation located at android-studio-beta, and not with the installation located at Android Studio (the two options shown in step 2). Wait for the installation to complete, then exit.
4. Change your start icon from the previous location to the new location, and restart from the icon.
5. Reassert your updates channel before accepting any update prompts. As you use your various installations, make sure that your preferred updates channel hasn't changed. I can't be sure, but it seems like this setting might leak across during installs. Better safe than sorry. The image is of my old install, which I did not want to affect by this upgrade.

At some point, probably once you're satisfied that the new installation will work you you, you may remove the previous installation.

^{1 Here is an official page to show that it's ok to have side-by-side installs: Android site multiple installation page}

Answer 5

well ,you can go ahead and download the patch and unzip it . In its bin directory run studio64.exe file it will ask to import configuration from older version just click that option and get your newer version running

Answer 6

I too ran into this problem. I did not want to uninstall and reinstall it again. What I did was to unzip the downloaded file and just copy and replaced the bin, lib, license and plugins folder into my original install path and it worked.

I am on Windows.