Android Studio fails to install update (error : Failed to read or create install properties file.)

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I am running [ Android Studio 2.3 Build #AI-162.3764568, built on February 24, 2017 JRE: 1.8.0_112-release-b06 amd64

Answer 1

If you are on a *nix system, you should locate $ANDROID_HOME. Mine is installed inside /opt. Given that this directory belongs to root, you will need to invoke sudo before running your command.