make it harder to mess up obtaining fastboot

This removes the link to the platform-tools releases page to discourage
using another approach to downloading and extracting it. The most common
mistake made by users is doing this their own way and ending up without
fastboot in their shell's path.
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Daniel Micay 2020-12-23 18:01:29 -05:00
parent 89ba766d85
commit cce6d66b10

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<section id="standalone-platform-tools">
<h4><a href="#standalone-platform-tools">Standalone platform-tools</a></h4>
<p>If your operating system doesn't make a proper version of fastboot available,
consider using the
<a href="https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools">standalone
releases of platform-tools from Google</a>. 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.</p>
<!-- https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools -->
<p>If your operating system doesn't include a usable version of fastboot,
you can use the official standalone releases of platform-tools. This is
our recommendation for most users. The flashing process won't work unless
you follow these instructions including setting up PATH. If you close and
reopen the terminal after doing this, you'll need to set PATH again in the
new terminal.</p>
<p>To download, verify and extract the standalone platform-tools on Linux:</p>