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After searching around throughout the net, it seems like the issue of the operating system not being to recognize the adb tool, or any other platform tool (for that matter), has been common.

What I'm hoping to understand is that, if one were to modify their ~/.profile so it resembled the following:

 20 if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
 21     PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/android-sdks/platform-tools:$PATH"
 22 fi

Why is it that the adb is still not recognized, even when (while in the relevant directory of course), I do a ./adb?

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  • Does $HOME/bin exist? What is the output of test -x $HOME/android-sdks/platform-tools/adb && echo OK || echo FAIL? If you echo $PATH do you see what you added to the $PATH? (in some cases you might have to log out and log back in)
    – mpontillo
    Commented Mar 21, 2012 at 5:38
  • Why don't you just put it in your export it to your PATH directory instead of using a script... ?
    – JoxTraex
    Commented Mar 21, 2012 at 5:41

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I would check and see if you have a ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login, which would take precedence if you are using Bash.

I personally use this in ~/.bash_profile

# --- add Android platform-tools directory
PATH=~/android-sdks/platform-tools:$PATH
export PATH
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Please update the PATH in /etc/profile

PATH=$PATH:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools
export PATH

I personally use this in /etc/profile this will work for any user.

Hope this will help you.

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