[CALUG] Android SDK

[John Alan Hastings]

I am setting up an Android SDK and am running into some fragility.

I have set up Android with eclipse on one machine which is running
Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS).  This works smoothly and without a problem.  This
machine is heavy and not very portable.

I bought a nice little Asus EeePC model  1018PS.  1.1 kg and a battery
life in excess of 6 hours.  I blew away Windows and installed Ubuntu
10.04.  This machine is very light, very portable and will be a very
good advertisement for Linux when it arrives on the customer's premises.

If it works.

Which it doesn't.

I installed eclipse (Galileo) and android (the latest version, whatever
it is, and the same one that is on the other machine).  The JRE and JDK
which they say is required came from the Ubuntu repository and both are
present.

Eclipse starts and runs, but when I try to install the android plugin, I
start getting critical errors.  The most frequent is:

  murrine_style_draw_box: assertion 'height >= -1' failed

There must be a memory leak, because in fairly short order it crashes
with an out of memory condition.

Any ideas?

Alan

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