Android studio on Ubuntu will not open

Question

Not sure what happened. I was using it and then switched to editing an api file in Geany, then went back to Android Studio and got this error below. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but still no go. Any ideas?

Internal error. Please refer to https://code.google.com/p/android/issues

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManagerCore.loadDescriptors()[Lcom/intellij/ide/plugins/IdeaPluginDescriptorImpl;
at com.a.a.b.b.ar.a(ar.java:121)
at com.a.a.b.b.ar.a(ar.java:71)
at com.intellij.idea.MainImpl.start(MainImpl.java:19)
at com.intellij.idea.StartupUtil.startApp(StartupUtil.java:303)
at com.intellij.idea.StartupUtil.prepareApp(StartupUtil.java:245)
at com.intellij.ide.plugins.MainRunner.lambda$start$0(MainRunner.java:47)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

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JRE 1.8.0_242-release-1644-b3-6222593 amd64 by JetBrains s.r.o
/snap/android-studio/94/android-studio/jre/jre"

Answer 1

Remove lib folder .local/share/Google/AndroidStudio4.1/marketplace

or execute command

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Google/AndroidStudio4.1/marketplace/lib

It's working for me :-)