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Actually I want to try the kotlin language which requires android studio 3.0, but I have 2.3.2. So how do I update the thing on Ubuntu?

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  • Pretty sure that's all included in the documentation – OneCricketeer May 26 '17 at 05:58
  • What happened when you typed "Android Studio 3" into your favourite search engine? – Henry May 26 '17 at 05:59
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    just took 1min to search https://developer.android.com/studio/archive.html – Manohar May 26 '17 at 06:01
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    Possible duplicate of [How to update Android Studio Beta Channel](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27288367/how-to-update-android-studio-beta-channel) – OneCricketeer May 26 '17 at 06:12
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    Thanks for not helping! – geek-tech May 26 '17 at 06:27
  • @Redman: is there any mention of *updating* on that page? I could not find it. – serv-inc Jul 21 '17 at 06:23
  • Read [this](https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/install-preview.html) and download latest android studio 3.0 canary 7 for linux from my above link or [this](https://dl.google.com/dl/android/studio/ide-zips/3.0.0.6/android-studio-ide-171.4182969-linux.zip) – Manohar Jul 21 '17 at 14:02

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Well I found out that many versions of Android Studio can be installed side by side which is better for me since I wan to have the old one also:

https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/install-preview.html

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    side-by-side is the best option for Studio 3.0. The Android Studio team is not offering update patches from Studio 2.3 (stable) --> Studio 3.0 (canary). – Jamal Eason May 29 '17 at 06:42
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You can also upgrade android studio from older version to new version. Go to Help -> Check for Updates Then the update window will appear, Select Update and Restart button or Update Now if you are updating Plugins.

Usually, there is an issue with the upgradation i.e. When we click "update and restart" it says "Downloading patches" and it closes after or before downloading the entire patches. It does not start again and if we try to open it, the version is still the older one. I found that after the patch is downloaded Android Studio tries to update itself but as it is run without sudo rights it fallbacks to simply run the old version of Android Studio without updating it.

So to fix it go to the folder where Android studio was installed, usually, it is /usr/local/android-studio/bin and go to sudo mode using sudo -i and then run ./studio.shor run sudo ./studio.sh (but it didn't work for me) and try to download the patches again probably now it should get updated.

This will preserve the confriguration of your older version of Android Studio.

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You have to install Android Studio 2.3 first here.

Next, you install it following the introduction.

Download Android Studio 3.0 here. Remember to choose Linux version.

Just open it in: /bin/androidstudio

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