{"id":446,"date":"2015-10-11T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T08:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gator4228.temp.domains\/~vasiljevski\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2019-05-27T01:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T23:25:51","slug":"how-to-install-genymotion-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vasiljevski.com\/blog\/general\/how-to-install-genymotion-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install Genymotion on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-454 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vasiljevski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/geny-150x150.png\" alt=\"genymotion-ubuntu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Genymotion is a great tool for testing Android applications. It overcomes Android SDK emulator in every way.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few steps needed for setting up genymotion on Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Prerequirements<\/h2>\n<p>Make sure you have VirtualBox installed on your system. If not you can get it by running:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install virtualbox<\/pre>\n<h2>Installation<\/h2>\n<p>Go to the directory where you downloaded genymotion-[version]_[platform].bin. Add executable permission:<\/p>\n<pre>chmod +x genymotion-2.5.2_x64.bin<\/pre>\n<p>And execute it:<\/p>\n<pre>.\/genymotion-2.5.2_x64.bin<\/pre>\n<p>By default it will try to install genymotion in the current location. You will be asked to confirm the location genymotion will be installed:<\/p>\n<p><em>Installing to folder [\/home\/[user]\/Downloads\/genymotion]. Are you sure [y\/n] ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you want to install it to a different location you can specify a location by adding &#8211;destination [path] | -d [path] :<\/p>\n<pre>.\/genymotion-2.5.2_x64.bin -d [path]<\/pre>\n<p>Don&#8217;t add genymotion in the path, it will be added by by default.<\/p>\n<p>That is all! Now you start using genymotion by calling:<\/p>\n[path]\/genymotion\/genymotion<\/p>\n<h2>Uninstall<\/h2>\n<p>To uninstall all the genymotion use the same command as install just add &#8211;uninstall | -u<\/p>\n<pre>.\/genymotion-2.5.2_x64.bin -d [path] -u<\/pre>\n<p>You could just delete the genymotion folder, but uninstall removes temporary cache files and Genymotion logs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genymotion is a great tool for testing Android applications. It overcomes Android SDK emulator in every way. 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