adb command not found

I need to run an adb forward command before I could use the ezkeyboard application which allows user to type on the phone using browser.

adb forward

When I run adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080 command I get the adb command not found error message.

adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080

adb command not found

I can run android command from terminal. Why adb is not working?

android

adb

16 Answers
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Make sure adb is in your user's $PATH variable.

adb

or

You can try to locate it with whereis and run it with ./adb

whereis

./adb

In my case with Android Studio 1.1.0 path was this

/Users/wzbozon/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools

/Users/wzbozon/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools

Add the following to ~/.bash_profile

~/.bash_profile

export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/tools:$PATH
export PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH


source ~/.bash_profile

From the file android-sdks/tools/adb_has_moved.txt:

The adb tool has moved to platform-tools/

If you don't see this directory in your SDK, launch the SDK and AVD
Manager (execute the android tool) and install "Android SDK
Platform-tools"

Please also update your PATH environment variable to include the
platform-tools/ directory, so you can execute adb from any location.

so on UNIX do something like:

export PATH=$PATH:~/android-sdks/platform-tools

export PATH=$PATH:~/android-sdks/platform-tools

I am using Mac 10.11.1 and using android studio 1.5,
I have my adb
"/Users/user-name/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools"

Now edit you bash_profile

emacs ~/.bash_profile


Add this line to your bash_profile, and replace the user-name with your username

export PATH="$PATH:/Users/user-name/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools"


save and close.
Run this command to reload your bash_profile

source ~/.bash_profile


Is adb installed? To check, run the following command in Terminal:

~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb


If that prints output, skip these following install steps and go straight to the final Terminal command I list:

Run the following command on your Mac and restart your Terminal session:

echo export "PATH=~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools:$PATH" >> ~/.bash_profile


On my Mac (OS X 10.8.5) I have adb here:

~/Library/android-sdk-mac_86/platform-tools


So, edit the $PATH in your .bash_profile and source it.

$PATH

.bash_profile

source

~/Library/android/sdk/platform-tools/

Mac users just open /Users/(USERNAME)/.bash_profile this file in a editor.

and add this line to add path.

/Users/(USERNAME)/.bash_profile

export PATH="/Users/myuser/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools":$PATH


this is the default path if you install adb via studio.
and dont forget to change the username in this line.

To avoid rewriting the $PATH variables every time you start a terminal, edit your .bash_profile (for Macs, it's just .profile) file under your home directory (~/), and place the export statement somewhere in the file.

Now every time you start terminal, your $PATH variable will be correctly updated. To update the terminal environment immediately after modifying the profile file, type in:

source ~/.profile


nano /home/user/.bashrc
export ANDROID_HOME=/psth/to/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools


However, this will not work for su/ sudo. If you need to set system-wide variables, you may want to think about adding them to /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, or /etc/environment.

ie:

nano /etc/bash.bashrc
export ANDROID_HOME=/psth/to/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools


If you don't want to edit PATH variable, go to the platform-tools directory where the SDK is installed, and the command is there.

PATH

platform-tools

SDK

You can use it like this:

Go to the directory where you placed the SDK:

SDK

cd /Users/mansour/Library/Developer/Android/sdk/platform-tools

cd /Users/mansour/Library/Developer/Android/sdk/platform-tools

Type the adb command with ./ to use it from the current directory.

adb

./

./adb tcpip 5555

./adb tcpip 5555

./adb devices

./adb devices

./adb connect 192.168.XXX.XXX

./adb connect 192.168.XXX.XXX

in my case I added the following line in my terminal:

export PATH="/Users/Username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools":$PATH

make sure that you replace "username" with YOUR user name.

hit enter then type 'adb' to see if the error is gone. if it is, this is what you should see:
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.40

...followed by a bunch of commands..and ending with this:
$ADB_TRACE
comma-separated list of debug info to log:
all,adb,sockets,packets,rwx,usb,sync,sysdeps,transport,jdwp
$ADB_VENDOR_KEYS colon-separated list of keys (files or directories)
$ANDROID_SERIAL serial number to connect to (see -s)
$ANDROID_LOG_TAGS tags to be used by logcat (see logcat --help)

if you get that, run npm run android again and it should work..

This is the easiest way and will provide automatic updates.

install homebrew

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


Install adb

brew cask install android-platform-tools


Start using adb

adb devices


UNABLE TO LOCATE ADB #SOLVED
Simply Download Sdk platform tools.https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html
Extract the Downloaded file.
Go to Sdk Manager in Android Studio and copy the link. Go to file Explorer and paste the path for Sdk you copied to view the Sdk files. You will notice that the Adb file is missing, open downloaded file (platform tools) copy contents and replace every content in your Sdk tool file (the file where you noticed adb is missing)and save. You are good to go.

In my case this is the solving of this problem

Make sure you have installed the android SDK. Usually the location of SDK
is located to this location

/Users/your-user/Library/Android/sdk

After that cd to that directory.

Once you are in that directory type this command
./platform-tools/adb install your-location-of apk

if youd dont have adb in folder android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/ you should install platform tools first. Run android-sdk-macosx/tools/android and Install platform tools from Android SDK manager.

android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools/

android-sdk-macosx/tools/android

I solved this issue by install adb package. I'm using Ubuntu.

sudo apt install adb


I think this will help to you.

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