How to install Ionic framework on Ubuntu?

Question

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 version. I would like to use Ionic to build app for Android. I couldn\'t find exact solution to install Ionic.

Answer 1

As Others have stated: Install the following:

• Java (oracle 8+)
• Ant
• git
• node
• android sdk (may need lib32)
• cordova
• ionic itself
• bower, grunt, gulp

So Java+git+abt first:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
sudo apt-get install ant git

choose an Node version:

#0.12
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -

or

#5.x
https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x

eitherway:

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

If you're on an x64 machine:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32ncurses5-dev lib32stdc++6

if ia32-libs+lib32ncurses5 are not found use:

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6

Next: Android Sdk Download AndroidStudio/ or Standalone Sdk. I would recommend Studio, as it simplifies the installation-process a lot

• download from Android.com
• unzip to arbitrary location
• run studio.sh (in /XY-location/Android-Sdk_linux/bin)

• Add SDK to PATH: append to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile

  export ANDROID_HOME=/home/xyx/Android/sdk export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Finally install the node modules

sudo npm install -g gulp bower grunt-cli cordova

And ionic

sudo npm install -g ionic

or for ionic v2 (still in alpha state but cool++)

sudo npm install -g ionic@alpha