Error on Android build: “aapt2: error=2, No such f

Question

Getting the following error on a build server.

Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.0-beta05-4818971/aapt2-3.2.0-beta05-4818971-linux.jar

...

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/root/.gradle/caches/transforms-1/files-1.1/aapt2-3.2.0-beta05-4818971-linux.jar/43bd0f91870a1f4f8e99e05eefb192e9/aapt2-3.2.0-beta05-4818971-linux/aapt2": error=2, No such file or directory
    at com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2DaemonImpl.startProcess(Aapt2DaemonImpl.kt:80)
    at com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2Daemon.checkStarted(Aapt2Daemon.kt:53)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
    ... 10 more

Full build log

Looking at the jar downloaded, it appears that the file it's looking for is at the root of the jar file. Not sure why it's trying to find it in 43bd0f91870a1f4f8e99e05eefb192e9/aapt2-3.2.0-beta05-4818971-linux/

Versions used:

gradle-4.8-all.zip
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0-beta05'
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.2.51"

compileSdkVersion 28
buildToolsVersion '28.0.2'
minSdkVersion 23
targetSdkVersion 28

Answer 1

To get aapt working (this fixed my issues with the avd as well) just run these two commands:

sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
sudo apt-get install lib32z1

It Should Work!!

Answer 2

In my particular case it was on an alpine linux distro which made the installations a bit trickier.

Basically need to install this: https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc

Docker Code:

RUN echo "Installing standard dependencies..." \
  && apk add --no-cache --update --virtual=.build-dependencies \
    ca-certificates \
    wget \
  # ---------------------------------------------
  && echo "Installing glibc..." \
  && wget https://alpine-pkgs.sgerrand.com/sgerrand.rsa.pub -O /etc/apk/keys/sgerrand.rsa.pub \
  && wget https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/releases/download/${GLIBC_VERSION}/glibc-${GLIBC_VERSION}.apk -O /tmp/glibc.apk \
  && wget https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/releases/download/${GLIBC_VERSION}/glibc-bin-${GLIBC_VERSION}.apk -O /tmp/glibc-bin.apk \
  && apk add --no-cache /tmp/glibc.apk /tmp/glibc-bin.apk