How To Install google-android-emulator-installer on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install google-android-emulator-installer on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is google-android-emulator-installer
google-android-emulator-installer is:
This package will download Google’s Android emulator binary package, create a Debian package, and install it.
The Android SDK includes an Android device emulator — a virtual device that runs on your computer. The Android Emulator lets you develop and test Android apps without using a physical device.
WARNING: Installing this Debian package causes android-emulator to be downloaded from dl.google.com and/or from other suggested mirrors. The End User License Agreement of this binary package is available at developer.android.com.
There are three methods to install google-android-emulator-installer on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install google-android-emulator-installer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install google-android-emulator-installer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install google-android-emulator-installer
Install google-android-emulator-installer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install google-android-emulator-installer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install google-android-emulator-installer
Install google-android-emulator-installer 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install google-android-emulator-installer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install google-android-emulator-installer
How To Uninstall google-android-emulator-installer on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the google-android-emulator-installer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove google-android-emulator-installer
Uninstall google-android-emulator-installer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall google-android-emulator-installer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove google-android-emulator-installer
Remove google-android-emulator-installer Configurations and Data
To remove google-android-emulator-installer configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge google-android-emulator-installer
Remove google-android-emulator-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove google-android-emulator-installer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge google-android-emulator-installer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install google-android-emulator-installer package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.