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Unable to run aapt which has been installed through the Android SDK, what could be the reason?


I'm trying to run a Gradle build within a Docker Ubuntu machine.

The application i'm compiling is supposed to generate an .apk file and so I'm using the aapt packager which comes as part of the Android SDK build-tools which I've installed using the following command: android update sdk -u -a -t 7 (Android SDK Build-tools, revision 23.0.3)

But then, when I run Gradle it fails with the following error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':Company-ServicesSDK:processReleaseResources'.
> A problem occurred starting process 'command '/Users/itai/repos/Company-Android_fork/.gradle/android-sdk-linux/build-tools/23.0.3/aapt''

Through my Macbook I'm able to run the aapt and it works properly but from within the Docker machine, when I try to run it, I get:

bash: ./aapt: No such file or directory

Running file aapt from my Mac:

aapt: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, not stripped

Anyone knows why it happens and how to solve it?


Solution

  • If it interest anyone, I found that in order to fix this issue I had to install the following packages:

    lib32z1
    gcc-multilib
    make
    

    After installing these packages, running aapt gave me the proper output.