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Install Android Platform Tools

This isn’t a fully encompassing guide, but should be enough to get access to ADB and Fastboot.

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Linux#

Via Package Manager#

Note: May not be the latest version due to packaging delays depending on your distro.

If you have issues with insufficient permissions or such, you may need to setup udev rules, the instructions in the M0Rf30/android-udev-rules repo should suffice for most distros.

Fedora / RHEL / AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux#

sudo dnf install android-tools

Ubuntu / Debian / Pop!_OS/ Linux Mint (Or any other Debian/Ubuntu based distro)#

sudo apt update
sudo apt install google-android-platform-tools-installer

Arch Linux / Manjaro / EndeavourOS#

sudo pacman -S android-tools

openSUSE#

sudo zypper install android-tools

Gentoo#

You use Gentoo. Figure it out.

Manually (Always Latest)#

  1. Go to the platform-tools page on the Android Developer website.
  2. Click the Download SDK Platform-Tools for Linux and agree to the terms.
  3. Unzip the resulting .zip file and place it wherever you like. (I prefer /home)
  4. (Optional) Add it to your PATH in .zshrc or .bashrc.

macOS#

Via Homebrew#

brew install --cask android-platform-tools

Manually (Always Latest)#

  1. Go to the platform-tools page on the Android Developer website.
  2. Click the Download SDK Platform-Tools for macOS and agree to the terms.
  3. Unzip the resulting .zip file and place it wherever you like. (I prefer /home)
  4. (Optional) Add it to your PATH in .zshrc or .bashrc.

Windows#

Via winget#

winget install --id=Google.PlatformTools  -e

Via Chocolatey#

This also includes fastboot.

choco install adb

Via Scoop#

This also includes fastboot.

scoop install adb

Manually (Always Latest)#

  1. Go to the platform-tools page on the Android Developer website.
  2. Click the Download SDK Platform-Tools for Windows and agree to the terms.
  3. Unzip the resulting .zip file and place it wherever you like. (I prefer /home)
  4. (Optional) Add it to your PATH.
Install Android Platform Tools
https://chardidath.ing/posts/install-android-platform-tools/
Author
Charlie
Published at
2025-08-10