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Linux 32 Bit Libraries









Some of the tools that are part of the Android SDK are only available as 32-bit binaries for Linux. If you are using a 64-bit system, these binaries will not run out-of-the-box, and you get a very misleading error message:

$ ./tools/mksdcard
bash: ./tools/mksdcard: No such file or directory
$ file ./tools/mksdcard
./tools/mksdcard: ELF 32-bit LSB  executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=119b9b83c17fa0228acfd582e951ea8b050e1229, not stripped

As you can see, even though the file is there, attempting to run it will give a message claiming it is not.

To fix this, you need to install 32-bit compatibility libraries on your system. How that's done depends on which particular version of Linux you're using.

If you are running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu, you need to install some 32-bit libraries with the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 lib32bz2-1.0

If you are running 64-bit Fedora, the command is:

$ sudo yum install zlib.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 bzip2-libs.i686


(On older versions of Ubuntu the command to run was sudo apt-get install ia32-libs).

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