I will really appreciate any help or insight here.
I need to config Android Studio (2.2.1 latest) but it is being a pain! Just after to be installe
In the debug output, you can see
Instructing gradle to use java from /home/sidney/bin/android-studio/jre
Now, if you notice that path, that's the JRE, not the Oracle JDK. I'm honestly not sure why Android Studio ships with a buggy Java JRE, what version it is, why it's the default, or even recommended, but find the IDE settings for setting up the correct JDK.
Hopefully it'll run successfully after that.
It might take a while to build and download some dependencies the first time, but should be faster after that. If you don't plan on downloading many libraries to start out, you can enable Offline Mode to have it be quicker