Which Android ADB should I keep on Ubuntu?

Question

I noticed that running adb version show an outdated version 28 on my Ubunutu 22.04 system. I'm not sure how adb was previously installed, maybe through the apt package android-sdk-platform-tools?

$ which adb
/usr/bin/adb

$ adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41
Version 28.0.2-debian
Installed as /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb

$ dpkg -l | grep android-sdk-platform
ii  android-sdk-platform-tools                                  28.0.2+6                                                       amd64        Tools for interacting with an Android platform
ii  android-sdk-platform-tools-common                           28.0.2+6                                                       all          Tools for interacting with an Android platform - Common files

Android Studio has a much newer version 34 of adb. Android Studio's System Settings > Android SDK shows Android SDK Location to be /home/gv/Android/Sdk.

$ /home/gv/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41
Version 34.0.3-10161052
Installed as /home/gv/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb
Running on Linux 5.19.0-41-generic (x86_64)

What is your recommendation to fix this mismatch in adb? I am mainly using Android Studio and adb for Flutter development with Vscode. I am unsure if these changes can affect working on Flutter with Vscode.

Any suggestions? Thanks

Answer 1

You actually have to go to the place where you installed your sdk,

by default on ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS if you installed it with sudo apt install,

is placed in /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb !

you should delete platform-tools/. Go to android developer at

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools

download latest version of plateform-tools et replace it anywhere you have it

in my case /usr/lib/android-sdk/ > extract it > renaim it ' plateform-tools' in final you have been /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/.

sudo apt update that's good !

$ adb version 
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41 Version 34.0.4-10411341
Installed as /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb
Running on Linux 6.2.0-26-generic (x86_64)