January 08, 2010

Developing on Android - problems installing ADT

While trying to install the ADT on a Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala using the Ubuntu Eclipse package I get the following errors trying to add ADT to Eclipse:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: Android Development Tools 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404)
  Missing requirement: Android Development Tools 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404 (com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.feature.group 0.9.5.v200911191123-20404) requires 'org.eclipse.gef 0.0.0' but it could not be found

Next step would be to remove Eclipse and reinstall it from a tarball I guess ....

Does anybody else got to this road-block and perhaps passed it?

2 comments:

mef said...

I am a complete newbie to Eclipse
(and Android) so I have no idea whether this will be helpful.

However, I hit this also and (after a lot of hassle) was able to get past this.

Somewhere in my searches on the web I found out that GEF is the "Graphical Editing Framework".

So, I searched for that in the "Available Software".
I couldn't find it until I turned off "Group items by category"

But after I installed it the Android components install complete without error.

Unknown said...

Thank You, mef. I did not have time to verify your comment but found it was true for me as well. I will post a new story with step by step pics done on a virtual machine.