Had 2 problems
first
Unable to run mksdcard SDK tool.
solved by
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6
Second, while trying to launch emulator from within Android Studio
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.solibGL error: driver pointer missinglibGL
solved by
either run this command from the terminal
LD_PRELOAD='/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6' /Android/Sdk/tools/emulator -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Nexus_5_API_24
or, set the ennvironment variable
ANDROID_EMULATOR_USE_SYSTEM_LIBS to 1
in ~/.pam_environment
and re-login
