rfranknj@bulb:~/Downloads/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools$ uname -a
Linux bulb 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
rfranknj@bulb:~/Downloads/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools$ ldd emulator
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf777f000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib32/libutil.so.1 (0xf7764000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf775b000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7741000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf771b000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7717000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7622000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7604000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf74bc000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7780000)
rfranknj@bulb:~/Downloads/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools$ ./emulator
emulator: ERROR: You did not provide the name of an Android Virtual Device
with the '-avd <name>' option. Read -help-avd for more information.

If you *really* want to *NOT* run an AVD, consider using '-data <file>'
to specify a data partition image file (I hope you know what you're doing).

rfranknj@bulb:~/Downloads/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools$