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Run Chrome with out of date plug-ins

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Plug-ins which run inside Google Chrome don’t automatically update and so they may get outdated over time. When an outdated plug-in is called inside a HTML page, Google Chrome detects that it’s out of date and a message will appear informing you that the plugin has been blocked.

An unsafe solution to the problem is to run Google Chrome with a special argument:

chrome --allow-outdated-plugins

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Android on Ubuntu: IOException on aapt

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As I told in a previous post, I’m setting up a new Ubuntu installation and I want to compile something for Android on it.

After installing Android SDK I got this error on my first iteration of “ant debug”

BUILD FAILED
/home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/tools/ant/build.xml:621: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/tools/ant/build.xml:657: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt": error=2, No such file or directory

The error is in some way misleading because the binary is there, but the problem is that it’s a 32-bit executable

max@praxi:~$ ls -l /home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 929400 Jul 27 14:33 /home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt

max@praxi:~$ file /home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt
/home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped

The solution is near: we need 32-bit libraries

root@praxi:~# aptitude install ia32-libs

As always it’s a good idea to RTFM:

The Android Ant-based build system requires Ant 1.8.0

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I’m setting up a new Ubuntu installation (Quantal Quetzal) and I’m going to play with some Android code on it.

The first test I did after installing the Android SDK gave me this result:

BUILD FAILED
/home/max/AndroidSDK/android-sdk-linux/tools/ant/build.xml:377: The Android Ant-based build system requires Ant 1.8.0 or later. Current version is 1.7.1

This is not what I needed, but fortunately the solution is easy enough.
Doing something like this solved my issue:

root@praxi:~# aptitude install ant=1.8.2-4build2

Done