Problem launching android AVM/SDK gui using the tools/android executable in the android SDK. Ubuntu 10.04, i686

Question

Hi I just installed the android SDK along with Eclipse 3.5 on my i686 Thinkpad T60 running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). (Eclipse was installed via synaptic, i.e. a package from th

Answer 1

just a better way to show the code.. consider this a comment from @Bart answer...

for some reason it tries to exec swt-lib from /tmp. that's wrong and dumb and i have no idea who's the culprit here (android or the java lib itself)

so, if you don't want to remount /tmp as RW, just symlink that swtlib dir to some place else. i moved it to the android dir.

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hobo$ mv /tmp/swtlib-32 android/

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hobo$ ln -sf ~/android/swtlib-32 /tmp/swtlib-32

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hobo$ android/android-sdk-linux/tools/android