How To Install android-tools-adbd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install android-tools-adbd
on Debian 10.
What is android-tools-adbd
android-tools-adbd is:
Android Debug Bridge (adb) is a versatile tool that lets you manage the state of an emulator instance or Android-powered device. It is a client-server program that includes three components:
A client, which runs on your development machine. You can invoke a client from a shell by issuing an adb command. Other Android tools such as the ADT plugin and DDMS also create adb clients.
A server, which runs as a background process on your development machine. The server manages communication between the client and the adb daemon running on an emulator or device.
A daemon, which runs as a background process on each emulator or device instance.
This package provides the daemon component.
There are three methods to install android-tools-adbd
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install android-tools-adbd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install android-tools-adbd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install android-tools-adbd
Install android-tools-adbd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install android-tools-adbd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install android-tools-adbd
Install android-tools-adbd Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install android-tools-adbd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install android-tools-adbd
How To Uninstall android-tools-adbd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the android-tools-adbd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove android-tools-adbd
Uninstall android-tools-adbd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall android-tools-adbd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove android-tools-adbd
Remove android-tools-adbd Configurations and Data
To remove android-tools-adbd
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge android-tools-adbd
Remove android-tools-adbd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove android-tools-adbd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge android-tools-adbd
Dependencies
android-tools-adbd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install android-tools-adbd
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.