Having trouble running android sdk tool on 12.10

Question

When I try to run the Android SDK Manager from the command line it doesn't open. Keeps giving me command not found or permission denied message like so.

osama@prometheus:/media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools$ pwd
/media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools
osama@prometheus:/media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools$ /media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools/android
bash: /media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools/android: Permission denied
osama@prometheus:/media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools$ sudo /media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools/android
sudo: /media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools/android: command not found
osama@prometheus:/media/osama/develop/android-sdk-linux/tools$ 

Am I missing something? Am i doing something wrong? Please help.

Answer 1

The reason you could not run it is because the SDK was on an external drive mounted with the noexec flag active. If you run the mount command you should see the word noexec on the line of the external drive. This is a safety feature to prevent executing malicious software by accident. As a result the android binary could not have the executable bit set, hence you could not run it.

Copying it to a different disk (as you did) where you can set the executable bit with chmod +x /path/to/android is the solution.