Error to run Android Studio

Question

I have installed Android Studio and I followed all steps described here

But when I start studio.sh I got an error with this message:

Answer 1

On my Linux Mint 17.3 install, I found these instructions incredibly helpful.

The problem seems to boil down to the system's default Java being OpenJDK and Android Studio preferring Oracle's JDK. I actually did not perform the OpenJDK removal steps given in the tutorial, but only downloaded the Oracle JDK and set it as my system's default. Android Studio worked right away.

In case the linked page ever goes away, the steps I took were

Download Oracle JDK. Mine was version 1.7.0_79.

tar -zxvf jdk-7u79-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p /opt/java
sudo mv jdk1.7.0_79 /opt/java
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/jdk1.7.0_79/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --set java /opt/java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/java

and

java -version

confirms the system is using Oracle's JDK, giving output like

java version "1.7.0_79"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_79-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode)