Why can't I get Android Studio from umake anymore?

Question

I have used ubuntu-make aka umake to install Android Studio and setup the full Android SDK. But since I have upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Kubuntu to be precise) I am not able to install Android stack this way. Here is my console output:

$ umake android
ERROR: A default framework for category Android was requested where there is none
usage: umake android [-h] {android-ndk} ...

Apparently, there is no android-studio or android-sdk option available. Does anyone know why? Also, same goes for eclipse under ide section.

Solution

To install Android Studio in Ubuntu 16.04 ,You need the latest version of umake which is 16.05 . Check your umake version using

umake --version

you need to not, install umake from the standard ubuntu repositories, instead add ubuntu-desktop repository to get latest umake version. Add repository by

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make

Update software Source

sudo apt-get update

Now install/upgrade umake

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-make

Now install Android Studio by

sudo umake android android-studio

Comments

[Vivek Ji]

I did same as mentioned here. I got ubuntu-make update of 16.05. But still I am unable to install Android Studio. Please help.

[Rahul K Jha]

@VivekJi Is there any error message?

[Vivek Ji]

Yes, there was. But I opted different solution and done.

[Jason Harrison]

From sudo umake android android-studio I get the error PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.local/share/umake/android/android-studio'

[Rahul K Jha]

hi @JasonHarrison , Is there anything else in error message ?

[Jason Harrison]

@t9toqwerty nope. I used sudo chmod -R og+rx /root to resolve the permissions error but that doesn't seem like a great solution. For one it's give executable permissions to files, not just directories. For another it should only be necessary to change the permissions along the path, not everything under /root. I'm learning ubuntu, on OSX locally install packages go under /usr/local so /root/.local seems so very very wrong, but it might just be the way to do it.

[Jason Harrison]

Ah, I think I figured it out. I used sudo umake android android-studio. I should not have used sudo.

[Alexey Ce]

why are you using sudo umake android android-studio and not umake android android-studio? Why sudo? you're installing system wide??

[Csaba Toth]

Looks like 17.10 Artul Aardwark doesn't require a separate PPA any more! Yay!