I modified my PATH statment within gedit by adding the following to the bottom of the ~/.bashrc file:Ĭode: lsusbThis should produce output similar to the following:īus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubīus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hubīus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hubīus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hubīus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hubīus 001 Device 063: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd The PATH statemnt must be altered to include the /android-sdk-linux/tools and /android-sdk-linux/platform-tools directories. In most cases and by default the ~/.profile file imports all settings from the ~/.bashrc file). (The ~/.profile file is read upon login for all interactive shells, and the ~/.bashrc file is read upon all non-interactive shells (i.e sftp). The PATH environment variable may be either modified within ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile) or within ~/.bashrc. Modify your PATH environment variable to include the adb and fastboot executables. These programs will be located within the newly created directoy ~/android-sdk-linux/platform-toolsĢ.

The platform tools package contains both the adb and fastboot executables. Any additional packages may be downloaded as well. ~/android-sdk-linux/tools/androidSelect Android SDK Tools and Android SDK Platform-tools.(Screen shot provided below).

Install adb and fastboot on linux