How to install ADB & Fastboot on Xubuntu 18.04

ADB stand for android debug bridge, adb is a tool for communicating with android devices using your computer, in this tutorial i will show you how to install the latest ADB and fastboot tool on xubuntu 18.04 bionic.

How to install ADB & Fastboot on Xubuntu 18.04

• open command line/terminal on xubuntu (press CTRL + ALT + T)
• download platform tools linux zip package

wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip

• extract/unzip platform tools linux

sudo unzip -d /usr/local/sbin platform-tools-latest-linux.zip

• download adb from github

sudo wget -O /usr/local/sbin/adb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NicolasBernaerts/ubuntu-scripts/master/android/adb

• download fastboot from github

sudo wget -O /usr/local/sbin/fastboot https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NicolasBernaerts/ubuntu-scripts/master/android/fastboot

• give execute permission for adb

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/platform-tools/adb /usr/local/sbin/adb

• give execute permission for fastboot

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/platform-tools/fastboot /usr/local/sbin/fastboot

• done!

The method above will install the latest version of adb and fastboot, you can also install adb from xubuntu/ubuntu repository, but you won't be getting the latest version. You can check adb version by running:

adb version

Author : kernel-panic

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