How to Install and Uninstall adb Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 14,2024

You can also install and uninstall the adb on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "adb" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install adb on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "adb" package

Learn how to uninstall adb on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                adb
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the adb package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: adb
Source: android-platform-tools (29.0.6-28)
Version: 1:29.0.6-28
Installed-Size: 544
Maintainer: Android Tools Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: android-tools-adb
Depends: android-libbase (>= 29.0.6), android-libboringssl (>= 13.0.0+r24), android-libcutils (= 1:29.0.6-28), android-liblog (>= 29.0.6), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 12), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.16)
Recommends: android-sdk-platform-tools-common (>= 28.0.2~)
Description: Android Debug Bridge
Description-md5: 4fb58b8688addfd94d32fe9a20c9d2e8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/android-platform-tools/adb_29.0.6-28_amd64.deb
Size: 193808
MD5sum: eb98086c84ce344a12980b3eaf46dd26
SHA256: a12693b0fab2edd8389017ce4589f59d11770dcdb585f090f3eff26f4a7d2dbc