Trying to install android-tools-adb and getting unable to locate package

16.04 apt package-management repository adb

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Solution 1

Don't know why this hadn't been put as an answer, I just put it here from Charles Green excellent comment.

android-tools-adb and android-tools-fastboot are in the universe repository. You can enable it in Software Center or just hit this one-liner which will enable and install everything.

sudo add-apt-repository universe && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Solution 2

I had to slightly tweak the suggested command from Suncatcher. The following worked for me:

sudo add-apt-repository universe && sudo apt-get update && android-tools-fastboot

and then use:

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb

Solution 3

You can manually download and install it via a deb file from here.

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Suncatcher

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Suncatcher over 1 year
I wasn't able to install these packages when I used
```
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb 
```
I get
```
unable to locate package android-tools-adb 
```
Can you help, please?
- Charles Green almost 7 years
  
  The package should be located in the universe collections of Ubuntu. Check your software & updates to ensure that the 'community-maintained free and open-source software (universe)' collection is checked, and then perform sudo apt-get update and try to re-install.
user3802905 about 2 years

The link is dead.
DIRTY DAVE about 2 years

This fixed the issue for me. Thanks