sdkmanager --package_file=/sdk/packages.txt not working

[Fran García Salomón]

It seems that packages installation is not working because sdkmanager is rejecting the argument:

Step 12 : RUN mkdir -p /root/.android && touch /root/.android/repositories.cfg && ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin/sdkmanager --update && (while [ 1 ]; do sleep 5; echo y; done) | ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin/sdkmanager --package_file=/sdk/packages.txt
---> Running in acf3a5e88ad9
done
Warning: Unknown argument --package_file=/sdk/packages.txt

I didn't find any cause/solution to this.

[Bruno Agrizzi]

Hi @fgsalomon ,
In my case I put a variable with the file .txt in Dockerfile and add --verbose.

like this:

ENV ANDROID_PACKAGES_FILE packagesFile.txt

...

... ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin/sdkmanager --verbose --package_file=${ANDROID_PACKAGES_FILE}

[Jan Grewe]

I'm currently working on this, the --package_file doesn't work for me either, i'm now switching to just passing the list of packages as a string argument.

[Fran García Salomón]

@BrunoAgrizzi that didn't work for me, thanks anyway.
@jangrewe thank you for the update!

[urmet]

I just got bitten by that myself. Google knows about that and the fix is supposedly pending https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/66465833

Another workaround is to run the --package_file install step before --update. The download package has older non-broken sdkmanager before you run update.

[Julian Alimin]

Looks like this has been fixed in June, but its still a problem now

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/66465833

[Deleted user]

Currently today this problem persists! The sdkmanager don't accept --package_file flag:

My text File:

Windows 10 Pro for Workstation, Celeron G1610 Dual Core, 8GB RAM DDR3, Android Studio and sdkmanager on last versions.

[Julian Alimin]

@gittiago12 if you look closely at
https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads

and
https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/sdk-tools

You will notice that Android has not updated the sdk manager since last year.

So I am doing it manually and line by line until Google updates it

sdkmanager "add-ons;addon-google_apis-google-24"
sdkmanager "add-ons;addon-google_apis-google-24"
sdkmanager "build-tools;28.0.3"
sdkmanager "extras;android;m2repository"
sdkmanager "extras;google;google_play_services"
sdkmanager "extras;google;m2repository"
sdkmanager "platform-tools"
sdkmanager "platforms;android-28"
sdkmanager "extras;google;instantapps"
sdkmanager "extras;m2repository;com;android;support;constraint;constraint-layout;1.0.2"
sdkmanager "extras;m2repository;com;android;support;constraint;constraint-layout-solver;1.0.2"

[Jan Grewe]

@gittiago12 I'm not sure if this is the right place to complain about the package manager, as i'm also just a user, not the developer ;-)
If you have a look at my Dockerfile, i bypass this by passing the packages as string from the text file, instead of the text file itself:

RUN while read -r package; do PACKAGES="${PACKAGES}${package} "; done < /sdk/packages.txt && \
${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin/sdkmanager ${PACKAGES}

[Julian Alimin]

Not sure if this will help anyone, but it was working for me if I do

RUN while read -r package; do PACKAGES="${PACKAGES}${package} "; done < /sdk/packages.txt && yes | ${ANDROID_HOME}/tools/bin/sdkmanager ${PACKAGES}

Instead of what @jangrewe mentioned

[Jan Grewe]

You only need to pipe the output of yes to sdkmanager if you don't have the licenses, as having the licenses make the SDK Manager not even ask for input.
And as you can see from the images built on Docker Hub, piping yes is not needed if you do all the steps my Dockerfile does.