[Android-tools-devel] A question about ADB

[Taylor Kline]

Thank you very much. I am tracking Debian testing and I have both options
available. Going with adb :)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
wrote:

>
> Hey Taylor,
>
> You'll want to use `apt install adb` when available, not
> android-tools-adb.  android-tools-adb is going away in stretch.  If you
> are on jessie, the 'adb' package does not exist.
>
> android-tools-adb is from the android-tools source package, which was
> hacked together from bits and pieces grabbed out of the Android source
> tree.  'adb' is part of the whole android-tools suite, which is built as
> a whole:
>
> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=android-
> tools-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> .hc
>
> Taylor Kline:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > If I want to simply install adb in order to execute 'adb' from the
> > Terminal, do I want to install 'adb' or 'android-tools-adb'?
> >
> > And would you mind explaining exactly what is the difference? I have read
> > the wiki, but it is still not entirely clear to me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Taylor
> >
> >
> >
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