How to resolve Android Studio's “Studio does not have write access” error?

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I have asked in two places, already:

  1. github.com/terrapkg/packages/discussions/9299, where I ask:

    run0 dnf5 upgrade --refresh android-studio returns 0 results, so I want to update the package via its in-built updater. Is this feasible without corrupting the package? I ask because, by default, issuetracker.google.com/issues/37024375#comment1 reproduces: [1]

    @{'Date'='20260118T154243+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Android Studio and Plugin Updates'}#
    @{'Date'='20260118T154243+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Android Studio and Plugin Updates'}#634×402 37.1 KB

    Prepending sudo [2] [3] bypasses it, but still fails:

    1. @{'Date'='20260118T155537+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Android Studio and Plugin Updates'}#
      @{'Date'='20260118T155537+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Android Studio and Plugin Updates'}#634×402 32.2 KB

    2. @{'Date'='20260118T155714+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Welcome to Android Studio (ROOT)'}#
      @{'Date'='20260118T155714+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Welcome to Android Studio (ROOT)'}#636×356 27.9 KB

    3. @{'Date'='20260118T155919+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Update'}#
      @{'Date'='20260118T155919+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Update'}#500×124 3.91 KB

    4. @{'Date'='20260118T155858+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Update'}#
      @{'Date'='20260118T155858+0000'; 'Type'='Photo'; 'Origin'='Update'}#752×2122 73.9 KB

  2. linux.codidact.com/posts/296174, where I ask the same (but about the Canary build), because Codidact permits multiple answers, unlike Discourse’s Solutions plugin.

However, nobody appears to know what the solution is.

  1. issuetracker.google.com/issues/37024375#comment11 ↩︎

  2. stackoverflow.com/revisions/58174300/2 ↩︎

  3. unix.stackexchange.com/revisions/203149/2 ↩︎

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This one’s outside my experience. Hopefully someone here who actually runs Android Studio on Fedora can chime in.

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