I am trying to install Android SDK under Linux-Porteus (Slackware wanabe). Instructions tell me how to unpack it, so I unpack it to ~/Apps/Android/<Android-Home>. Instructions tell me to finish installing by running <Android-Home>/tools/android to download the rest of the suite, including Android kernel libraries and adb. However, all I get is java 'command not found' errors. This leads me to believe there are dependencies that I don't know about. Usually, dependencies are addressed when I use the standard installation method, which includes "./configure, make, make install". How do I get Android-SDK to tell me exactly what it is missing?

Here's what I keep getting:

guest@porteus:~/Apps/Android-SDK/android-sdk-linux/tools$ ./android --no-ui
./android: line 84: java: command not found
./android: line 94: java: command not found
./android: line 110: exec: java: not found

if the java command is not found then you may be dealing with a simple issue ... you dont have java installed.

Confirm this by running java -version. If there is not output or java command is not found again you need to 1. download java. 2. point the JAVA_HOME to the java directory. But before moving too far ahead let's see if that is indeed the issue.