ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

Ok so I'd really like to get adb up and running on my linux machine as I use ubuntu a lot more than windows (and am really thinking about completely replacing it altogether) but I cant find a tutorial on how to do this as they are all for windows. I tried following this guide: [GUIDE] Lazyman's installation guide to ADB on Ubuntu 10.10 - xda-developers but I get stuck at the part about permissions (shows adb device-> Permissions ??????? no matter what I do)

can anyone walk me through it or know of a guide I can use?

thanks a lot

Re: ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

That's the guide I link to in the FAQ...

Did you follow the udev rule part? It's... pretty important ;).

Also, to find this value - ATTRS{idVendor}=="####" - lsusb is all you need. Not sure why that post makes that part so complex...

Re: ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

hmm ok thanks for lsusb, but that gives me an ID of 0bb4, and when I replace that in the "####" (i.e. "0bb4") then execute:

$ sudo chmod a+rx /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules

and

$ sudo restart udev

then

$ ./adb devices

I still get the "????????? No permissions" I have no idea what im doing wrong because that is the right id??

Re: ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

Hrm, looks like you're doing it all correctly... did you kill adb and do sudo adb start-server as well...?

Edit - been a while since I've had to do this :p. I just tried it on my HTPC, and worked like a charm - however, I did get caught up in the same section, I just did a sudo ./adb kill-server then sudo ./adb start-server, then ./adb devices work. I'll point it out to the OP in that thread, might've just overlooked this step. Hope that works for you, thanks!

Eh on second thought, he does already mention killing and starting the server if you're still getting the permissions issue... So I don't think there's anything to point out ;). Gotta read thru those directions carefully!

Re: ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

ok so after a couple hours of banging my head against the wall I did manage to get it to work, im not sure exactly what was wrong but the kill/start server is def key. I edited my rules file to be -SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"- as per a youtube video lol and then killed and restarted the server and now im good to go

thanks a lot for the help man

Re: ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

np.

Just for your edification, I followed the guide to the T - that was the only 'hiccup' I ran into - and I was going to mention it to the OP of that guide, but if you read below he recommends killing and starting the adb server back up ;).

Re: ADB in Ubuntu 10.10
 

oh no I did do that the first time too, I think it was just a mistake in the gedit portion of the udev, but restarting of the server should be listed a little earlier in that guide, it would make it a little easier to follow I think

but regardless I can finally ditch stupid windows now lol thanks again