Error when running Ubuntu emulator -- fork/exec /usr/share/android/emulator/out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator: no such file or directory

[Aaron Hastings]

I just installed Ubuntu SDK on Ubuntu 14.10 (upgraded from 14.04 just over a month ago). Creating an emulator works fine, but launching it from Qt Creator using the "Play" button causes nothing to happen; no error, completely silent failure.

Launching from the command line gives errors as below:

aaron@laptop ~> ubuntu-emulator list
i386-devel ubuntu=20140917,device=20140917,version=243

aaron@laptop ~> ubuntu-emulator run i386-devel
fork/exec /usr/share/android/emulator/out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator: no such file or directory

I have checked and this binary does indeed *not* exist. The directory listing stops at /usr/share/android/emulator/out and only contains the directory "target" as demonstrated below:

aaron@laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/share/android/emulator/out/

total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 2 18:35 target/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: phablet-tools 1.1+14.10.20141010-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Dec 3 09:54:01 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-25 (222 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: phablet-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-23 (40 days ago)