Comments on: Android Dev Phone, Ubuntu and VMWare Server

By: gunnar-medial

gunnar-medial — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Thanks ! I re-used part of your wordings in providing an ADB setup guide for the new Archos 5 Internet Tablet device. See my post here:
http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=26483

By: Johan de Koning

Johan de Koning — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:22:05 +0000

Don't understand what the exact problem is with setting the PATH variable. But maybe this can help.

There are two ways to get a binary version of the adb utility. One way is by compiling the source, the binary version will be found at (in my case) ~/mydroid/out/host/linux-86/bin.
The other option is to download the Android SDK (from developer.android.com) I extract the contents of the archive file to my home folder so that the adb utility will be inside the ~/android-sdk-linux-x86-1.5_r2/tools

To make one of this location part of the $PATH variable, so that the adb utility can be found system wide you need to export the $PATH variable. You can do that temporary inside a terminal. The new $PATH variable value will exists inside the terminal (and not in other ones) and will be there until you close this terminal. This can be done by executing the following command inside the terminal

Own builded version

export PATH = $PATH:~/mydroid/out/host/linux-86/bin

or the Android SDK version

export PATH = $PATH:~/android-sdk-linux-x86-1.5_r2/tools

If you don't want to set the PATH everytime you open a new terminal, you can also place this export command inside the .bashrc file which is inside your home directory. Open the file inside your editor and add the export line (which are given above) at the end of the file. Save the file and exit the texteditor. Every new terminal you will open now will use the new $PATH variable.

To check the contents of the $PATH variable just execute the

echo $PATH

command to show the directories which are part of the PATH.

Hope this will give you a solution / some tips for your adb problem

By: Blackpantera

Blackpantera — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:58:24 +0000

Hi Johan

I am new in linux, I am been searching how to fix the adb utility "PATH" without luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

By: Blackpantera

Blackpantera — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:33:40 +0000

Thank you I will try that.

By: Johan de Koning

Johan de Koning — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:19:59 +0000

Looks like the adb utiltity is not inside the $PATH variable. Make sure the directory is inside your $PATH.

By: Blackpantera

Blackpantera — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:06:31 +0000

Hi there
I am using vmware 6.5 and I running ubuntu as a virtual machine.

I have followed the instructions, but it is not working for me.

root@ubuntu:/home/blackpantera# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bb4:0c02 High Tech Computer Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@ubuntu:/home/blackpantera# sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules

(gedit:6249): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libaurora.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
root@ubuntu:/home/blackpantera# sudo chmod a+rx /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules
root@ubuntu:/home/blackpantera# sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
* Loading additional hardware drivers... [ OK ]
root@ubuntu:/home/blackpantera# adb devices
bash: adb: command not found

root@ubuntu:/home/blackpantera# adb kill-server
bash: adb: command not found

Any help would be greatly appreciated

By: Building Android 1.5 – Flashing the phone — Johan de Koning

Building Android 1.5 – Flashing the phone — Johan de Koning — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:29:49 +0000

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By: vitriolix

vitriolix — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:14:51 +0000

I just wanted to add that I was having a problem where lsusb showed the device, but "adb devices" was blank. I fixed it by running "adb kill-server", then running "adb devices" again, this time making sure I was running it as root. now it shows up!

By: will

will — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:04:36 +0000

Thank you so much for this post!!!! I tried installing my app on the device in Windows but was never successful. Googled for days but every suggestion failed. I used vista (64 bit) and it never picked up the drivers (i guess) so the phone was never recognized by adb even though I could access the sd card from My Computer. Anyways, I run Ubuntu on a different partition so I switched to that, did the udev thing and it worked like a charm after I did udev restart. Most sites with similar posts don't tell you to restart udev. So thank you!!!