If your distribution doesn't have a proper fastboot package, which is likely,
- consider using the official releases of platform-tools from Google. You can either
- obtain these as part of the standalone SDK or Android Studio which are self-updating
- or via the standalone platform-tools releases. For one time usage, it's easiest to
- obtain the latest
- standalone platform-tools release, extract it and add it to your PATH
- in the current shell. For example:
If your operating system doesn't make a proper version of fastboot available, + consider using the + standalone + releases of platform-tools from Google. If you have the Android SDK or intend to + do development work, you install the platform-tools package via the Android SDK + package manager which can be used to keep it up-to-date. The Android SDK is available + by itself or can be obtained via Android Studio.
-unzip platform-tools_r30.0.0-linux.zip -export PATH="$PWD/platform-tools:$PATH"+
To download, verify and extract the standalone platform-tools for Linux:
+ +curl -O https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r30.0.0-linux.zip +echo 'f05b3d78def516d6fdf64be1caa1e1698e482b3adcf54a48dfaf9c972ddbd18e platform-tools_r30.0.0-linux.zip' | sha256sum -c +unzip platform-tools_r30.0.0-linux.zip+ +
Next, add the tools to your PATH in the current shell so they can be
+ used without referencing them by file path, enabling usage by the flashing script:
export PATH="$PWD/platform-tools:$PATH"
Sample output from fastboot --version afterwards: