Could not launch './qemu/linux-x86_64/qemu-system-i386': No such file or directory

Question

With 25rc1 of the SDK tools I am having a problem when starting the emulators from $PATH

➜  ~  which emulator
/home/ligi/bin/android-sdk/tools/emulator
➜  ~  emulator @M 
Could not launch './qemu/linux-x86_64/qemu-system-i386': No such file or directory
➜  ~  /home/ligi/bin/android-sdk/tools/emulator @M
console on port 5554, ADB on port 5555

Anyone knows a workaround? I could write a script to start emulators and cd in tools before but perhaps there is a better solution.

Answer 1

I encounter this one in android studio 2.3 which use new path for the emulator so try the following:

do not use emulator executable in the: sdk-path/tools/ directory but instead use the one found in the : sdk-path/emulator/

and also remove or rename the emulator found in the sdk-path/tools directory.

and because android sdk shipped with it's own libstdc++.so.6 you need to do the following to avoid the libGL error:

cd $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/lib64/libstdc++
mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.bak
ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/lib64/libstdc++  

Answer 2

Try this, it work for me on Windows.

Tools -> Android -> SDK Manager -> SDK Tools -> Android Emulator

Then click on Apply.