How To Install google-android-platform-8-installer on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install google-android-platform-8-installer on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is google-android-platform-8-installer

google-android-platform-8-installer is:

This package will download the Google’s Android SDK Platform 8 package and unpacks it into Debian-friendly paths.

Google’s Android SDK Platform includes android.jar file with fully compliant Android library. In order to build an Android app, this SDK platform must be specified as build target.

WARNING: Installing this Debian package causes android-2.2_r03.zip 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-platform-8-installer on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-platform-8-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-platform-8-installer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install google-android-platform-8-installer

Install google-android-platform-8-installer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install google-android-platform-8-installer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install google-android-platform-8-installer

Install google-android-platform-8-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-platform-8-installer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install google-android-platform-8-installer

How To Uninstall google-android-platform-8-installer on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the google-android-platform-8-installer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove google-android-platform-8-installer

Uninstall google-android-platform-8-installer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall google-android-platform-8-installer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove google-android-platform-8-installer

Remove google-android-platform-8-installer Configurations and Data

To remove google-android-platform-8-installer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge google-android-platform-8-installer

Remove google-android-platform-8-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove google-android-platform-8-installer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge google-android-platform-8-installer

References

• google-android-platform-8-installer website
• google-android-platform-8-installer on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install google-android-platform-8-installer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.