--------------------------Every command will be initiated from the terminal----------------------------------------------

Installing Sun Java on Newer versions of Ubuntu (10.04 an above), Linux Mint

Open the terminal and type the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer

That should install the Sun Java version on your system. To change to it simply do the following in case you have other java alternatives:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-oracle

If you want the installation to be automatic type the following:

sudo echo oracle-java6-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections

after that simply do the following to set the default environment variables:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default

Note that the PPA includes versions 6, 7 and 8. So you can install any of them by simply changing the number in the installation line, for example:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Would install Java 8. After installing the Java version you wish to use and setting the version to the default with the update-java-alternatives command, you can check which version you are using by typing the following:

java -version

It will show you the default version you are using at that moment.

For Debian we have to use a different method. Each line is a command in the terminal.

su -

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list

echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886

apt-get update

apt-get install oracle-java6-installer

exit

---------------------------Now to install tool for compiling android-----------------------------------------------------

Run the following command:

sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl1.2-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev squashfs-tools build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev pngcrush schedtool libxml2 libxml2-utils xsltproc g++-multilib lib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline-gplv2-dev gcc-multilib liblz4-tool android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

*Note: for debian you must add repositories for Sid distro

Now you need to set up your directories :

mkdir -p ~/bin

mkdir -p ~/android

----------------------------Install the repo command---------------------------------------------------------------------

Enter the following to download the "repo" binary and make it executable (runnable):

curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo && chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Put the ~/bin directory in your path of execution

Make sure that the ~/bin directory you just created is in your path of execution so that you can easily run the repo command even when you're not in ~/bin. Assuming you are using the BASH shell, the default in recent versions of Ubuntu, you can set it like this:

export PATH=${PATH}:~/bin

-----------------------------Initialize the source repository-----------------------------------------------

cd ~/android

repo init -u

Download the source code

repo sync