How to make Android's aapt and adb work on 64-bit Ubuntu without ia32-libs (works for versions 12, 13 and 14)

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Another way(without adding i386 architecture)...

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5
sudo apt-get install lib32z1

Ref: Fix Android adb on Ubuntu 13.10 64bit

While dpkg --add-architecture i386 command is not needed in the current version of Ubuntu (13.10), it is required in the current Debian versions (7.x) and it will be required in the future Ubuntu versions as well. So I am going to leave it in. Just ignore it for Ubuntu 13.10.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get -qqy update
sudo apt-get -qqy install libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386

Update: aapt indeed requires zlib so I added it to the list. But you should not be needing any lib32 packages.

It's just a matter giving sdk files the necessary permissions.

 sudo chmod -R +x /path/to/android-sdk-linux

Restart Android Studio and see if that fix it.

Permission issues typically occur when you copy/move sdk files from a NTFS partition or copying from another computer.

On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x64 and buildToolsVersion 21/22 it was enough to execute the following:

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386
sudo apt-get install zlib1g:i386

The error I was getting:

Execution failed for task ':core:processReleaseResources'.
> A problem occurred starting process 'command '/home/user/androidSDK/android-sdk/build-tools/21.1.2/aapt''

install 13.04 ia32-libs (raring ringtail)

instructions: http://bisonf.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/ubuntu-13-10-how-to-properly-install-ia32-libs-and-ia32-libs-multiarch/