adb command not found in linux environment
AndroidAdbAndroid Problem Overview
While implementing the BluetoothChat application .apk inside G1 device, it always pops up a message:
$adb install -r /home/parveen/workspace/BluetoothChat/bin/BluetoothChat.apk
-bash: adb: command not found
I am not getting clearly why this error is popping up every time. Please help me.
Thanks in advance. Praween
Android Solutions
Solution 1 - Android
Updating the path as listed above in ~/.bashrc
makes other bash
commands stop working altogether.
the easiest way I found is to use what eaykin did but link it your /bin
.
sudo ln -s /android/platform-tools/adb /bin/adb
No restart is required just type following command :
adb devices
To make sure it's working.
Solution 2 - Android
I found the solution to my problem. In my ~/.bashrc
:
export PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/android-sdk/tools
However adb
is not located in the android-sdk/tools/
, rather in android-sdk/platform-tools/
.
So I added the following
export PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/android-sdk/tools:/path/to/android-sdk/platform-tools
And that solved the problem for me.
Solution 3 - Android
> sudo apt install adb
in your pc adb not installed.
Try this, working for me
Solution 4 - Android
I had the same issue on my fresh Ubuntu 64 bit installation, and the path was set up correctly.
Thus, which adb
would resolve correctly, but trying to run it would fail with adb: command not found
.
The very helpful guys at #android-dev pointed me to the solution, namely that the 32 bit libraries hadn't been installed. On my previous computers, this had probably been pulled in as a dependency for another package.
On Ubuntu (probably other Debians as well), running [sudo] apt-get install ia32-libs
Solution 5 - Android
NOTE: while using adb on Linux you'll need to type ./adb to execute adb commands unless you create a path in ~/.bashrc. In a terminal write:
sudo gedit ~/.bashrc
Add the following line at the end of the file. Once you're done, save and exit.
Android tools
export PATH=/Development/adt-bundle-linux/sdk/platform-tools:/Development/adt-bundle-linux/sdk/tools:$PATH
Then in a Terminal run this command to reload your .bashrc: Code:
source ~/.bashrc
Now you can just run adb without put ./ before every command.
Solution 6 - Android
> Ubuntu 18.04
This worked for me:
- Find out and copy platform-tools path, in my case is
'/home/daniel/Android/Sdk/platform-tools'
- Open bashrc
nano ~/.bashrc
- Save platform-tools path
export PATH="${PATH}:/home/daniel/Android/Sdk/platform-tools"
- Reset bash_profile
source .bash_profile
adb devices
is now working
Solution 7 - Android
You need to add $ANDROID_SDK/platform-tools
to your PATH
, where $ANDROID_SDK
is wherever you installed the Android SDK.
Solution 8 - Android
> Follow these steps:
>
> Set android vars
>
> Initially go to your home and press Ctrl + H
it will show you hidden files now look for .bashrc file, open it with any text editor
> then place the lines below at the end of file:
>
> export ANDROID_HOME=/myPathSdk/android-sdk-linux
> export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
>
>
> Now Reboot the system
>
> It Works!
Solution 9 - Android
I have same problem as you. finally as i know, in linux & mac OS, we use ./adb instead of adb
Solution 10 - Android
> For Ubuntu 20.04
After trying many solution
sudo apt install adb
worked for me.
After installing try command adb devices
for starting daemon successfully
then again use same command adb devices
to get the list of devices
Solution 11 - Android
In my case "adb" is located in "~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/"
the following command solved the problem:
export PATH=$PATH:~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/
Solution 12 - Android
I have just resolved the problem myself on mint(ubuntu). It seems that adb is a 32 bit executable at least according to readelf -h. for the program to work in 64-bit ubuntu or whatever installation, we must have 32-bit libraries inplace.
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386
Solution 13 - Android
The way I fix this problem is:
- create a link from adb file(drag 'adb' with holding alt then drop to any directory and select 'link here')
- use
#sudo cp adb /bin
(copy link from 1 to /bin)
I've done this several times and it works 100%(tested on Ubuntu 12.04 32/64bit).
Solution 14 - Android
adb is in android-sdks/tools directory. You simply type this command: adb logcat
.
If you want to your stack traces in a text file use this command: adb logcat > trace.txt.
Now your traces are copied into that file.
If it is not working then go to android-sdks/platform-tools then put this command: ./adb logcat > trace.txt.
Hope it will helps to you.
Solution 15 - Android
In Ubuntu i could run the following command:
sudo apt install android-tools-adb
Solution 16 - Android
I had this problem when I was trying to connect my phone and trying to use adb. I did the following
-
export PATH=$PATH{}:/path/to/android-sdk/tools:/path/to/android/platform-tools
-
apt-get install ia32-libs
-
Connected my phone in USB debug mode and In the terminal type lsusb to get a list of all usb devices. Noted the 9 character (xxxx:xxxx) ID to the left of my phone.
-
sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules
-
Add [ SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="####:####", SYMLINK+="android_adb", MODE="0666" GROUP="plugdev" TEST=="/var/run/ConsoleKit/database",
RUN+="udev-acl --action=$env{action} --device=$env{DEVNAME}" ] (whatever is in [...] )to the file and replace "####:####" with the number from step 3cop -
sudo service udev restart
-
Restarted my System
-
open terminal browse to adb directory and run
./adb devices
And it shows my phone hence adb starts working without error.
I hope it helps others
Solution 17 - Android
Make sure you installed sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb Now check sudo adb It will show help of adb
Now please kill/start adb use following commands -
sudo adb kill-server sudo adb start-server
Lastly, sudo adb devices
Hopefully this will work !!!
Solution 18 - Android
updating the $PATH did not work for me, therefore I added a symbolic link to adb to make it work, as follows:
ln -s <android-sdk-folder>/platform-tools/adb <android-sdk-folder>/tools/adb
Solution 19 - Android
I was getting this error also and Ubuntu suggested me to install it so I installed* it and this worked in my case.
-
- sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
- sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
Note:x64 architecture
Solution 20 - Android
creating a symbolic link was the solution for me either. However before working I had to grant access and execute rights to the created symbolic links.
I am not sure if it was @eaykin's answer or @crazymacleod's that worked for me, as I did both before finding the above mentioned solution.
Thanks!
Solution 21 - Android
For Fedora
sudo dnf install adb
Solution 22 - Android
Please try to update your bash profile.
For linux users: You need to add your Android SDK location.
For MAC users , in addition to the above step one extra change is required: You also need to add your Android Platform Tools location.
For more detail you can watch this video for reference: https://youtu.be/0-S5a0eXPoc?t=1211