Resolve shared library problem with Eclipse on Ubuntu (Android developers)

While starting android development on Ubuntu using Eclipse, you may get some errors like

/home/catia/android-sdks/platform-tools/aapt: error while loading shared libraries:
libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or while trying to start the simulator,

/home/catia/android-sdks/tools/mksdcard: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2012-01-01 19:00:18 - SDK Manager] Failed to create the SD card.
[2012-01-01 19:00:18 - SDK Manager] Failed to create sdcard in the AVD folder.

or any other like these..This is because, Android SDK is compiled for a 32-bit GNU/Linux system, and your system is a 64-bit system. To solve this error, install the 32-bit versions of all the most commonly used libraries, by installing the ia32-libs package

Go to the terminal and type the following command.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

This will solve the issue.

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September 5, 2013 at 12:52 am

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch

February 21, 2014 at 6:48 am

Does not work on Ubuntu version 12.04 and up.. any other ways?

August 22, 2014 at 6:41 pm

The ia32-libs package has been removed in Ubuntu 12.04+. You can now install these packages with:

sudo apt-get install libc-i386 lib32z1 lib32stdc++6

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Resolve shared library problem with Eclipse on Ubuntu (Android developers)

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