Error: Cannot run aapt

Question

When I compile an android application ( I tried with the sample ones from the sdk). I get this error:

>Error executing aapt: Cannot run program "/home/roel/projects/sdk/build-tools/18.0.1/aapt": >error=2, No such file or directory: error=2, No such file or directory    KeyChainDemo        >line 1 Android ADT Problem

But aapt is at that location?

>[roel@archUSB 18.0.1]$ ls /home/roel/projects/sdk/build-tools/18.0.1/

>NOTICE.txt  aidl     dx   libLLVM.so  libbcinfo.so  llvm-rs-cc    source.properties
>**aapt**        dexdump  lib  libbcc.so   libclang.so   renderscript

Note: I also get the error "R cannot be resolved", but I'm pretty sure that when I solve problem 1, I also solve this problem

Possible duplicate of Android SDK on a 64-bit linux machine

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Benjamin · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-31 18:15:14Z

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Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS solution:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib lib32z1 lib32stdc++6

Reason: aapt needs 32-bit libraries installed

edited Oct 31, 2015 at 18:15

answered Aug 29, 2014 at 14:42

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Vasil Valchev Over a year ago

Unable to locate package

Alvaro Over a year ago

Just comment the reason, aapt need 32 bit libs installed

elenfoiro78 Over a year ago

Even a better solution than the Google proposed one

Theodore R. Smith Over a year ago

What a horribly useless error message! Shame on the dev(s) who wrote that!

user1104939 · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-04 10:51:16Z

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The problem was my 64bit OS , I missed some 32 bit libs ;)

answered Aug 4, 2013 at 10:51

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hector6872 Over a year ago

I'm having the same issue... on Ubuntu 13.04 64bits. What libs did you install?

Jonik Over a year ago

@h_rules: apt-get install ia32-libs as instructed at developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html (see "Troubleshooting Ubuntu")

krd Over a year ago

On Ubuntu 14.04 ia32-libs is deprecated so I had to install lib32z1 and lib32stdc++6

Dropout Over a year ago

Why is your sudden discovery marked as an answer? :D

Mohd Farid Over a year ago

I think the answer by Benjamin deserves to be marked as the accepted answer. Can you please accept that.

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Thorin Schiffer · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-13 12:41:14Z

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SDK tools 24 has a bug, build will fail with the same error. Should be fixed in the new version, for now the workaround in tools/ant/build.xml place

<property name="aapt" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/aapt" />
<property name="aidl" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/aidl" />
<property name="dx" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/dx" />
<property name="zipalign" location="${sdk.dir}/build-tools/22.0.1/zipalign" />

at the end of the xml in the root tag. Replace 22.0.1 with your build tools version

answered Jun 13, 2015 at 12:41

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Aditya Singh Over a year ago

Life saviour is here guys

Santhana Over a year ago

You really helped me.

IgorGanapolsky Over a year ago

Or can just specify executable= in his build.xml without the dir= statement.

Sileria · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-08 06:32:16Z

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Debian 7 Wheezy solution:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

answered Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32

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Afaque H · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-22 15:24:04Z

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Ubuntu 13.10 solution:

Append

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse

to /etc/apt/sources.list.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

answered Feb 22, 2014 at 15:24

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:46:43Z

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I had this same problem today. If anyone from the future is having this problem, try the solution here

Programs running aapt in android sdk from shell and from sbt

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Lesik2008 · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-07 18:55:29Z

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I had the same problem today, this helped me.

Arch Linux 64bit.

answered Feb 7, 2014 at 18:55

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John Scott Stensland · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-07 11:08:26Z

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aapt is a 32 bit application and will fail on a 64 bit box until 32 bits are enabled and libs added

This is current solution as of Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures  #  if below was never run this returns nothing ... afterwards it will return : i386
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get -qqy update
sudo apt-get -qqy install libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386

edited Nov 7, 2017 at 11:08

answered Jan 4, 2017 at 19:23

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