On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 19:40:37 +0100 Daniel Bauer wrote:
I have just installed Android Studio, and it's running (well, I just put the settings to download the minimum things). Soon I'll see more...
Daniel, What led you to believe that Oracle's JDK was required, or at least preferred over OpenJDK, for installing and running Android Studio? I have since found several threads (primarily CentOS 7, Mint, Ubuntu discussions) where the only problem with OpenJDK was that 'tools.jar' wasn't being found and this was causing Android Studio to fail to launch. Installing the 'openjdk-devel' package fixed this problem. In our case, that package would be one (or both) of the following: java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel SUSE's implementation of the OpenJDK 7 Development Environment java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel OpenJDK 8 Development Environment These packages, which were already installed on my system, are all runtime packages: ~> rpm -qa | grep jdk java-1_8_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.1-6.2.x86_64 java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.85-10.2.x86_64 java-1_8_0-openjdk-1.8.0.60-15.2.x86_64 java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.1-6.1.x86_64 java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.60-15.2.x86_64 java-1_7_0-openjdk-1.7.0.85-10.2.x86_64 - - - - - 8< - - - - - java-1_8_0-openjdk-plugin Java Web Start and plugin implementation java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless OpenJDK 7 runtime environment without X, audio and video support java-1_8_0-openjdk OpenJDK 8 Runtime Environment java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin Java Web Start and plugin implementation java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless OpenJDK 8 Runtime Environment java-1_7_0-openjdk SUSE's implementation of the OpenJDK 7 runtime environment - - - - - 8< - - - - - After learning this, I installed the '-devel' package for both OpenJDK versions on my system: # zypper in java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed: java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel 2 new packages to install. Overall download size: 23.6 MiB. Already cached: 0 B After the operation, additional 58.1 MiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y Retrieving package java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.85-10.2.x86_64 (1/2), 15.3 MiB ( 20.0 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.85-10.2.x86_64.rpm ...........................................[done (362.0 KiB/s)] Retrieving package java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.60-15.2.x86_64 (2/2), 8.3 MiB ( 38.1 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.60-15.2.x86_64.rpm ...........................................[done (362.0 KiB/s)] Checking for file conflicts: ..........................................................................................[done] (1/2) Installing: java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel-1.7.0.85-10.2 ..............................................................[done] Additional rpm output: update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk/bin/javac to provide /usr/bin/javac (javac) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/java-openjdk (java_sdk_openjdk) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0 (java_sdk_1.7.0) in auto mode (2/2) Installing: java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.60-15.2 ..............................................................[done] Additional rpm output: update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk/bin/javac to provide /usr/bin/javac (javac) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/java-openjdk (java_sdk_openjdk) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk to provide /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0 (java_sdk_1.8.0) in auto mode After running 'updatedb' (find-utils): # locate tools.jar /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0/lib/tools.jar /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0/lib/tools.jar I'll install Android Tools tomorrow to see if my experience matches the positive results reported in those threads. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org