adb command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

adb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: adb: command not found

Solutions to adb: command not found

How To Fix adb: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu adb is provided by adb package.

adb is:

A versatile command line tool that lets you communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android-powered device.

This package recommends “android-sdk-platform-tools-common” which contains the udev rules for Android devices. Without this package, adb and fastboot need to be running with root permission.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install adb

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install adb.

sudo apt -y install adb

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install adb

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix adb command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.