Question

I’m build Android Open Source Project on Ubuntu 10.0.4. I try to install required packages by execute below command (coppied from http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html) but I can’t.

    sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
  zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev lib32ncurses5-dev ia32-libs \
  x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev lib32readline5-dev lib32z-dev \
  libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown \
  libxml2-utils xsltproc

The error message:

E: Couldn’t find package lib32ncurses5-dev

E: Couldn’t find package lib32readline5-dev

E: Couldn’t find package lib32z-dev

E: Couldn’t find package mingw32

Answer 1

Solution The list of required packages for building an Android OS is wrong. The correct packages are:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev lib64ncurses5-dev \ x11proto-core-dev
libx11-dev lib64readline5-dev lib64z-dev \ libgl1-mesa-dev
g++-multilib tofrodos

This is a mistake of Android Getting Started tutorial. Just want to share this.