Could not launch emulator in Android Studio

Question

I tried to launch application in emulator in android Studio in ubuntu 14.04 and it shows the following errors.

1. Error shown while gradle build is in process:

Answer 1

So I looked around to find some similair posts that encountered what you did, for the 1st error I found this that might fix the issue:

qemu-system

for the second one:

I saw multiple people that had this issue (source not super relevant). Some recommended updating your android studio or the SDK. Seeing as this might intervene with the 1st error I recommend just doing the 1st step and then check again.