Apache Cordova development environment install on Ubuntu
Apache Cordova has very nice documentation, however as so many projects it is focused on the Windows/MacOS duopolies only. Fortunately it's not too hard to work out the differences. Installing dependencies Thanks to: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make ant openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk Installing Android SDK Please note: one of the problems I found was that I had some Android tools from the Ubuntu repos that were conflicting with the SDK install. It's probably a good idea to remove them first. That might save you from a lot of headaches down the line (and time to troubleshoot). sudo apt-get remove android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot Download as per http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux.tgz Note: check for updated link version obviously vim ~/.bashrc Add the PATH variables to the top of the file #AndroidDev PATH export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/tools export PATH=${PATH}:~/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools Reload bash variables without reboot / logout source ~/.bashrc Testing SDK android This command should now bring up the SDK manager. Installing Eclipse IDE This is obviously an optional step depending on the IDE you want to use. I have previously covered a manual Eclipse install (as opposed to the Ubuntu repositories). Install Eclipse ADT Plugin As per: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html Node.js Install The main difficulty on Ubuntu (as with so many development tools - see Eclipse above) is that the included node.js version in the Ubuntu repositories is outdated (remove the Ubuntu version with 'sudo apt-get remove node'). sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make nodejs Install Cordova sudo npm install…