adb Problems with Ubuntu

Question

I am new to Linux and am attempting to set up my machine for Android development. I installed the SDK, and I set up the path to the "platform-tools" in my path by altering ~/.bashrc and adding the following:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/sdk/platform-tools

When I type:

echo $PATH

into the command line, it spits back the directory to my sdk platform-tools.

Now, when I type:

adb devices

The command line says "adb command not found".

If anyone could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

~Nemisis7654

When I type "adb devices" into the command line, I get an error "adb command not found" — ariets, Feb 24 '11 at 20:48
I am using the most up to date version of the SDK (just downloaded and installed the day I asked this question). When I see what the permissions are, I have "rwxrwxrwx" as my permissions. — ariets, Feb 25 '11 at 18:50

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '11 at 18:35

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The solution that worked for me was found here (Ubuntu 11.10 x64)

http://kenno.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/ubuntu-11-10-32-bit-applications-do-not-run-64-bit/

and basically even though I had the tools installed I just needed to do a reinstall of the libc6-i386 and it finally found adb.

answered Nov 22 '11 at 18:35

Mike

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Might be good to note that this resolves the 'adb: file or directory not found' error and not the exact error in the initial question. Regardless, this was exactly what I was looking for. – IanBussieres Aug 18 '13 at 03:30
That link was close - I no longer get file not found but now it wants libstdc++.so.6. – JavaCoderEx Jun 04 '14 at 17:39

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '11 at 18:38

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Looks like you got the first step down, now you just need to add the udev values for your particular device. See step 3 here. If you are using an emulator rather than a device adb should work fine without this step with what you have. You have mentioned what you have done but not what the problem is so I assume this is the issue you are having. What happens when you type adb into the terminal?

answered Feb 24 '11 at 18:38

Nathan Schwermann

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have you verified that you actually have adb downloaded yet? can you `cd` to the platform-tools folder and then see if `./adb` does anything for you? – Nathan Schwermann Feb 24 '11 at 22:08
Yes. It brings up a list of all the commands that adb has. The starting sentence is: "Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.26" – ariets Feb 25 '11 at 18:48
double check there isn't a typo in your $PATH that has to be the problem. – Nathan Schwermann Feb 25 '11 at 20:52

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '11 at 18:01

With the latest android SDK, adb should be under platform-tools. Just put export ANDROID=/usr/local/android/android-sdk-linux_x86 export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID}/tools:${ANDROID}/platform-tools and check the file permissions (for android or other binaries too).

Igor · Answer 4 · 2011-02-25T19:30:55.233

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In older versions of the sdk, adb was located in the /sdk/tools directory. You may need to create a symbolic link from platform-tools into that directory for adb:

ln -s /home/user/sdk/platform-tools/adb /home/user/sdk/tools/adb

edited Feb 25 '11 at 19:30

answered Feb 24 '11 at 21:02

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The original poster already knew where the adb command is located. – JavaCoderEx Jun 04 '14 at 17:38

adb Problems with Ubuntu

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