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AGamePlayer
AGamePlayer

Reputation: 7736

How to install "adb" on MacOSX?

I searched Google and Stackoverflow and found some discussion on this. It's saying that there'd be an adb after installing Android SDKs.

But I don't have any adb command after installing. All I got is:

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And some articles saying that use brew install android-platform-tools can work. I also tried but failed because it's telling me brew is not owned by root. I don't know where to find the brew command.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7712

Answers (1)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 43314

The program or script adb is indeed part of the platform-tools.

While (home)brew may be a way to install those tools, I advise you to download it via Android's own SDK manager:

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Look for the Android SDK Platform-tools entry and install that one.

If you really want to install it using homebrew, install that first:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

and then use the brew command which comes with the homebrew installation:

brew install android-platform-tools

(ruby comes pre-packaged with the Mac OSX installation)

That should do the same (I haven't tried, so I don't know), but if you use the official Android SDK manager, you can be sure it works.

Upvotes: 6

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