Android Studio 2.3.3 will not install on Linux

oliverclotheshoffe · Oct 20, 2017

Trying to install on Debian9, the install program tries to download the SDK (about 10 gigs I guess) to the tmp partition (which on a typical linux installation is about 350mb) and crashes when it runs out of space. I cannot change the download destination. I've tried every workaround I can find on the net and nothing works.

I installed it on my windows machine at work with no problem at all, unfortunately all I have at home is a linux machine. Asides from reformatting my hard drive, reinstalling linux and creating a 20gig tmp partition in the process, is there any known way to get it to work?

Thanks

svim · Oct 20, 2017

/tmp is definitely NOT were you want to install it, nor will you want to run it that way. Sounds like you may have inadvertently unzipped the installer into your /tmp directory.
Follow the directions as stated on the Android Studio site:
https://developer.android.com/studio/install.html

oliverclotheshoffe · Oct 21, 2017

Copied package into .opt (had to log in as root to do this) - extracted package into opt - had to alter path to tell root where the java package is (I guess because java was installed when logged in as regular user) - went into a terminal, ran studio.sh again, failed again with .tmp partition full.

Lemme give it another try.

svim · Oct 21, 2017

Somebody took the time to do this nice write-up (with graphics) on installing Android Studio into Debian 9:
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-android-studio-on-debian-9-stretch-linux

Deleted User · Oct 21, 2017

This problem frustrated the hell out of me for a long time. I had 7GB free on the root partition, but Android Studio failed to update because it was dumping all updates in to /tmp, and 7GB was not enough! Turns out it's is a known problem with Android Studio updates. There's a JVM argument to tell Android Studio to use a different tmp location for downloads. This worked for me, as I directed it to an external disc. I'll locate the details and let you know.

Deleted User · Oct 21, 2017

Set this as an environment variable, before starting Android Studio. You should put it in your .profile so it gets set when you log in.

export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djava.io.tmpdir=<path to tmp dir>

Where <path to tmp dir> is a directory on a partition with sufficient free space (many GBs)

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