Information about the package, android-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The android-tools package is designed for, Android platform tools(adb, fastboot).
Package Name:
android-tools
Summary:
Android platform tools(adb, fastboot)
Description:
The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is used to: - keep track of all Android devices and emulators instances connected to or running on a given host developer machine - implement various control commands (e.g. "adb shell", "adb pull", etc.) for the benefit of clients (command-line users, or helper programs like DDMS). These commands are what is called a 'service' in ADB. Fastboot is used to manipulate the flash partitions of the Android phone. It can also boot the phone using a kernel image or root filesystem image which reside on the host machine rather than in the phone flash. In order to use it, it is important to understand the flash partition layout for the phone. The fastboot program works in conjunction with firmware on the phone to read and write the flash partitions. It needs the same USB device setup between the host and the target phone as adb.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
20130123git98d0789
Release:
2.el6
Size:
122 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0 and (ASL 2.0 and BSD)
Control the android-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install android-tools
This command will install android-tools on the server.
yum remove android-tools
This command will un-install android-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove android-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove android-tools
This command will un-install android-tools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove android-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update android-tools
This command will update android-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove android-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update android-tools
This command will update android-tools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove android-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info android-tools
This command will show you core information about the android-tools package.
yum deplist android-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for android-tools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update android-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on android-tools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.