How to use the official source package In Linux

Step 1: Install dependencies

In order to install Android Studio from the Tarball package, we will need to download the required dependencies using the yum install command as follows :

sudo yum install glibc.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libstdc++.i686  ncurses-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXrender.i686 libXrandr.i686

Step 2 : Download Android Studio

Download android studio archive from official source. Go to official android studio page and download it from there.

Step 3 : Extract archive

Once download is complete, we will extract archive using tar -zxvf command. First navigate to Download directory using cd command, and later we will use tar -zxvf command to extract archive.

 cd Downloads/ 

sudo tar -zxvf android-studio-*-linux.tar.gz

Step 4 : Moving files to proper installation directory.

Once extraction is complete, we can move android studio directory to /opt directory to use it as a program. We will use mv command for that.

  sudo mv android-studio /opt/

now we will link android studio execution as follows

sudo ln -sf /opt/android-studio/bin/studio.sh /usr/local/bin/android-studio

Step 5 : Creating desktop entry.

Now, final step. We will create desktop entry for android studio icon for ease of use using gedit.

 sudo gedit /usr/share/appications/android-studio.desktop

After this command new text editor window will open. Paste following in it and save and exit.

Step 6 : Launch android studio.

Now, we can launch android studio from application menu by simply clicking on android studio icon.

Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building Android apps. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to ease the development process. In this article we will discuss two methods to install Android Studio on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.