Android Studio does not have write access

Question

I am using android studio 3.4.2. When I try to update the android studio it says

"Studio does not have write access to /app/extra. Please Run it by a privileged user to update"

How to solve it?

score 36 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '20 at 09:50

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I would suggest to set your current user as owner of /usr/bin/android-studio

This will resolve the issue in long term:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/bin/android-studio

answered May 29 '20 at 09:50

Samuil Banti

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in my case android studio is installet in opt dir so I had to use `sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/android-studio-2021.1.1` and `sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/android-studio` – Genes Apr 19 '22 at 04:38

Muhammad Numan · Answer 2 · 2022-01-21T07:52:21.243

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I would suggest setting up your current user as the owner of Android Studio

Linux

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/bin/android-studio

Mac

sudo chown -R $USER /Applications/Android\ Studio.app

or if you using android studio portable then you can use custom path like this.

sudo chown -R $USER: pathDirOfYourAndroidStudio/Android\ Studio\ Preview.app

edited Jan 21 '22 at 07:52

answered Jan 21 '22 at 07:35

Muhammad Numan

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Perfect answer for MAC users. Worked in one go. – shivang Sep 20 '22 at 18:20
Nice hat trick ;) – Pedro Emilio Borrego Rached Feb 15 '23 at 14:02

Daniel Gunna · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-01T12:24:13.203

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Navigate to your Android studio folder via terminal then run android studio with administrator privileges, using sudo or su. If you provide more information, like which OS you are using, maybe I'll be able to tell you the exactly command line you should use.

Edit:

Open terminal application, then type de following : cd ~/android-studio/bin *
Now we must run Android Studio script file studio.sh as administrator:

sudo ./studio.sh

If doesn't work try : sudo sh studio.sh

(Optional) To prevent this problem every time you want update android studio, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37704528/8513494

And is it.

I'm assuming that your android studio is located on your user folder, if there's a problem with this step, you should check /opt/ directory and look out for android studio installation folder or see https://superuser.com/a/1080329

edited Oct 01 '19 at 12:24

answered Sep 30 '19 at 19:41

Daniel Gunna

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Thanks, Daniel, I am using Linux Mint 19.2 – Mir Rahed Uddin Oct 01 '19 at 03:23
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Rahed, I already edited the answer, tell me if there is any problem. – Daniel Gunna Oct 01 '19 at 12:31
Thanks, Daniel for your guidance. It's working fine now. – Mir Rahed Uddin Oct 01 '19 at 21:28
You are welcome Mir Rashid Uddin, thanks for the upvote. If it doesn't bother, please consider mark the answer as the correct answer. – Daniel Gunna Nov 05 '19 at 15:11

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 29 '21 at 03:06

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For linux mint 20:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/android-studio-4.2/android-studio/

answered Jul 29 '21 at 03:06

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 17 '21 at 18:00

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Happens on Mac when you do not have Android studio in /Application directory. Move it there, if it is not resolved, try this answer.

answered Jun 17 '21 at 18:00

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 22 '21 at 06:59

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Set access to Read and Write (default is Read only)

answered Mar 22 '21 at 06:59

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score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 17 '21 at 09:04

I'd suggest changing the owner of the android-studio directory, doing so depends on the path of your android studio. Here is mine

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/android-studio

But you might have the following path

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/bin/android-studio

Check well and enjoy

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 05 '22 at 13:45

If you are a MAC user and running portable AS then the simple solution is to move the application within Application folder. Check this video. It solves my issue after wasting 3 hrs within the terminal but nothing is wasting of time. I am running MACOS 13(Ventura) & AS Electric Ele.

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