How To Install adb-enhanced on CentOS 8

adb-enhanced is Swiss-army knife for Android testing and development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adb-enhanced on CentOS 8.

What is `adb-enhanced`

ADB-Enhanced is a Swiss-army knife for Android testing and development. A command-line interface to trigger various scenarios like screen rotation, battery saver mode, data saver mode, doze mode, permission grant/revocation.

We can use yum or dnf to install adb-enhanced on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install adb-enhanced.

Install adb-enhanced on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install adb-enhanced using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install adb-enhanced

Install adb-enhanced on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install adb-enhanced using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install adb-enhanced

How To Uninstall adb-enhanced on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the adb-enhanced package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove adb-enhanced

adb-enhanced Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/adbe
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adb_enhanced-2.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/adb_enhanced.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/adb_enhanced.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/adb_helper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/adb_helper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/asyncio_helper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/asyncio_helper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/output_helper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/__pycache__/output_helper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/abe.jar
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/adb_enhanced.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/adb_helper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/apksigner.jar
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/asyncio_helper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/output_helper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/adbe/version.txt
/usr/share/doc/adb-enhanced
/usr/share/doc/adb-enhanced/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/adb-enhanced
/usr/share/licenses/adb-enhanced/LICENSE

References

adb-enhanced website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adb-enhanced on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.