Cannot install sdkmanager in windows 10
TL;DR;
- copy the content of
tools/lib/_
totools/lib
- run
sdkmanager
commands with--sdk_root
parameter.
Details
In the line 66 of the sdkmanager.bat, CLASSPATH is defined to be like this
set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\lib\/sdkmanager-classpath.jar
and inside the lib directory, sdkmanager-classpath.jar
is, oddly, under a subdirectory called -
.
I tried to change the path in the batch file but it did not work, so I copied the files from ..../tools/lib/_
to ..../tools/lib
and the error disappeard. However, a warning appeared:
Warning: Could not create settings
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.<init>(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:428)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.createSettings(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:152)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCliSettings.createSettings(SdkManagerCliSettings.java:134)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:57)
at com.android.sdklib.tool.sdkmanager.SdkManagerCli.main(SdkManagerCli.java:48)
According to this answer, I tried to pass the --sdk_root
parameter which worked without problems:
sdkmanager --sdk_root=%ANDROID_HOME% --list
# %ANDROID_HOME% is the environment variable that contains the path of android
# sdk installation. Typically, would be:
# `C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\tools`
PS: even I was able to solve this, I would say that this answer is a workaround since the documentation does not mention anything about copying files to other path