How to Install ADB & Fastboot on Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04, 21.04
This tutorial is going to show you how to install ADB & fastboot on Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04, 21.04, which is quite easy.
What are ADB and Fastboot
ADB and fastboot are two components of the Android SDK Platform-Tools.
ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge. It’s a command-line utility that allows you to do the following stuff:
- Control your Android device over USB from your computer
- Copy files back and forth
- install and uninstall apps
- run shell commands
- and much more
Fastboot is a command-line tool for flashing an Android device, boot an Android device to fastboot mode, etc…
How to Install ADB and Fastboot on Ubuntu 20.04, 21.04, 18.04
It’s super easy. Simply run the following commands in a terminal window to install them from Ubuntu repository.
sudo apt update sudo apt install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
To check ADB version, run
adb version
Sample output:
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.32
Enable USB Debugging on Your Android Device
While your Android device is unplugged from USB, go to your Android settings, scroll all the way down and tap About phone or About device. Then tap Build number 7 times which makes you a developer.
Now go back to the settings, you will see a new button called Developer options. Tap that button and enable USB debugging.
Test the Installation
To check if ADB is working properly, connect your Android device to your Ubuntu computer via USB cable. After that, type the following command in your Ubuntu terminal window.
adb devices
You will be prompted to allow USB debugging from an Ubuntu computer like the screenshot below. Select OK.
Then type run adb devices command again and your Android device will show up.
If you get the following error,
???????????? no permissionsThen all you need to do is restart adb daemon, run
sudo adb kill-server
Then
sudo adb start-server
That’s it!
Wrapping Up
I hope this tutorial helped you install adb and fastboot on Ubuntu 20.04, 21.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. You may also want to read:
- How to Install KDE Connect in Ubuntu LTS
- 2 Ways to Install Android Studio in Ubuntu 20.04/Ubuntu 18.04
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It worked. Thanks!
hey, I’ve a bricked oneplus one and isn’t possible to get access to my OPO.
adb devices under adb (ubuntu 17.04) doesn’ find devices under fastboot mode and also after start it (screen shows powerde by android and 1+-logo). May be I’d overwrote my bootloader by switching in TWRP…..
Is where any way to unbrick and reanimate my oneplus one again ????
I had had probe somthinks with an win-7 System; but the procederes aren’t successfully. Mayday , mayday 😉
worked, thank u
thanks a lot. it worked for me
Thanks a LOT
On ubuntu adb can be installed with : sudo apt install android-tools-adb
Thank you AGAIN
There is so much crapware already installed on my Android
I tried .but it is showing only
list of devices attached.
I would like to hear if any have ideas about, how to use android devices like (cheap tablets) for running android apps, as a part of a multisystem setup, with the linux-system as the main controlling device. It would of course be via a USB-hub or something like that. Preferable with any graphical output on X.
show the error
List of devices attached
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
26**** unauthorized
analyst@analyst:~$ adb devices
adb server is out of date. killing…
cannot bind ‘tcp:5037’
ADB server didn’t ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error:
Very helpfull , it worked for me , thanks a lot.
Thanks bro
trash tutorial, how do i install for windows????
Go away. Windows users. This site is Linux only