An issue with Android Studio running on Linux

Question

I have recently installed Android Studio on Manjaro Linux, but I am experiencing issues every time I have to run the application from the scratch. Namely, in order to start application, I have to be logged in as root, then I have to validate JAVA_HOME environmental variable and finally start the application with ./studio.sh

Here is the full code of that:

[nikodroid@manjaro ~]$ cd /usr/share/applications/android-studio/bin
bash: cd: /usr/share/applications/android-studio/bin: Permission denied
[nikodroid@manjaro ~]$ sudo su
[sudo] password for nikodroid: 
[root@manjaro nikodroid]# cd /usr/share/applications/android-studio/bin
[root@manjaro bin]# ./studio.sh 
which: no java in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)
ERROR: Cannot start Android Studio\nNo JDK found. Please validate either STUDIO_JDK, JDK_HOME or JAVA_HOME environment variable points to valid JDK installation.
[root@manjaro bin]# cd /usr/java/
[root@manjaro java]# export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/
[root@manjaro java]# export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
[root@manjaro java]# cd /usr/share/applications/android-studio/bin/
[root@manjaro bin]# ./studio.sh

So, obviously this runs only when I am keeping the terminal session, once I exit, the application stops working. My question is, what can I do in order to not do this all every time I want to run the application?

Just to mention, I put the following line

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/

in /etc/environment/ in order to persist this environment variable, but it seems that it didn't work.

Thanks!

Answer 1

install JRE and JDK with apt

for JRE: sudo apt-get install default-jre for JDK: sudo apt-get install default-jdk

check if all is ok with: java -version

then continue installation Android Studio

Answer 2

It really was a permission issue, as I looked and found out that the owner and group were messed up, so what I did is changing the permission/ownership with:

chown -R root:root android-studio

After this, I just changed the dir with:

cd /usr/share/applications/android-studio/bin

and ran

./studio.sh

It loaded the application without any errors.