I am trying to update from version 2.0.0 to version 2.1.2 in Ubuntu 64bit/14.04LTS but when I click "update and restart" it says "Downloading patches" and it closes.
It does not start again and if I try to open it, the version is still 2.0.0.
Is there any tutorial to manually update android studio? (keep all settings and etc).
The first time I installed Android Studio, I followed the instructions given at: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-android-studio-ubuntu-16-04
Basically
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/android-studio
sudo apt update
sudo apt install android-studio
With this you have a clean installation of android studio
Then, when I need to update it, I just rerun
sudo apt install android-studio
If you didn't use this method, it's worth a try. It is cleaner in the long run.
I experienced the same issue when trying to update from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 and the update problem still persisted after the Android Studio 2.1.2 release.
In the end the only option was a clean install of Android Studio.
To keep your existing Android Studio settings download and install the latest version into a different folder. When the new installation of Android Studio is run for the first time it will prompt you to import your settings from the older Android Studio version you have installed.
I had the same problem. I found that after the patch is downloaded Android Studio tries to update itself but as it is run without sudo rights it fallbacks to simply run the old version of Android Studio without updating it.
In order to update my old version of Android studio I went to the folder where Android studio was installed, in my case ~/apps/android-studio/bin/, and run with sudo Android Studio, in my case sudo ./studio.sh
It will then ask you for your Android Studio configuration file. Be careful about the location where the installation process will install a new Android SDK version, because in my case it wanted to install it in the wrong directory, I had to select custom installation in order to select the folder where I had my previous Android SDK.
The best way in my opinion is to use JetBrains Toolbox.
https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/
This small app allows you to update your JetBrains tools, including the official Android Studio. It detects Android Studio even if you did a manual setup.
To update Android Studio, the Android Studio was saying the it needed the writing access for the folder "android-studio where it's installed, by default is in `$HOME/android-studio/.
How you find the permissions?
cd <the directory where android-studio is located> (in may case, cd $HOME) to go to the directory.ls -l to see the list of permissions.
You can see the directory or d has enabled read r, write w and execute x for the user root, group of user. But others has only r and x, not w. This means Android Studio program hasn't writing access for the folder android-studio`.sudo chmod o+w android-studio.Now you can update Android Studio.
Updating from android-studio 2022.3.1(giraffe) to android-studio 2023.1.1(hedgehog). The update dialog box opened my chrome and started downloading the latest android studio IDE.
I extracted the tar.gz archive and replaced the android-studio(hedgehog) folder with existing android-studio(giraffe) folder.
The location of my android-studio(giraffe) installed was /usr/local/lib/android-studio
After performing these steps I simply clicked the android studio Icon on my desktop and Boom!! the IDE got updated without all my existing settings and plugins disabled (which ofcourse I did)
I always download my Android Studio mannually from:
http://tools.android.com/download/studio/builds/android-studio-2-2-stable
and Android SDK from: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
During instalation I select exisitng unpacked SDK instead of downloading during installation - it causes problems with not well downloaded packages
Try next time this way.
Hope it will help
You most likely have permissions issues.
This is quick, not very good fix. sudo chmod -R 777 [android studio folder]. This will give all permissions to everyone for that folder, this might not be a big deal for your home private machine, but for work/public one obviously you don't want that.
Good fix would be setting the proper permissions to the folder and subfolders where your Android studio is installed.
Execute the 'studio.sh' file by specifying the complete path. I ran it from my $HOME directory using command: /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh'
[Note: android-studio directory was given complete permissions previously. So, you may try 'sudo' in case appropriate permissions are not allotted]
