How to accept licenses with flutter doctor?

Question

When running flutter doctor in the cmd it is indicated that android licenses need to be accepted by running the command flutter doctor --android-licenses.

Running the command got me an error that a repositories.cfg could not be found at a specific directory. I did create the empty file in the directory and waited 4~5 minutes as suggested in this SO post repositories.cfg could not be loaded.

Running the command again results in a new error:

Warning: An error occurred during installation: Failed to move away or delete existing target file: C:\installs\sdk\tools Move it away manually and try again..

Deleting the tools folder did not solve the issue.

What do I have to do to be prompted to accept the Android licenses?

Solution

A way to resolve the issue is to copy the tools folder to another place (e. g. C:\temp). Then navigate the cmd to the directory with cd C:\temp\tools\bin

sdkmanager.bat --sdk_root=YOUR_DIRECTORY_HERE --licenses

YOUR_DIRECTORY_HERE should be replaced with the path to your original SDK folder (C:\installs\sdk). Once that is done, delete the C:\temp\tools copied folder.

This answer was influenced by Can't update \tools - Android SDK Command Line Tools for Windows