Installing Android platform tools (ADB) on Ubuntu and Debian systems

Here is a short script I use to install the latest version of Android platform tools on those of my systems I do not need full blown Android SDK on:

	#!/bin/bash
	[ -f /etc/os-release ] && . /etc/os-release
	[ "$ID" == "debian" ] || [ "$ID" == "ubuntu" ] || exit 1
	[ "$HOSTTYPE" == "x86_64" ] && dpkg --add-architecture i386 2>/dev/null
	apt-get -qqy update
	apt-get -qqy install wget xml2 unzip
	[ "$HOSTTYPE" == "x86_64" ] && apt-get -qqy install libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 zlib1g:i386
	DESTDIR=${ANDROID_SDK_HOME:-$HOME/android}
	mkdir -p "$DESTDIR"
	#REPO=$(wget -qO - "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+archive/master/sdklib/src/main/java/com/android/sdklib/repository.tar.gz" | tar xzOf - SdkRepoConstants.java | tr -d '\n ' | sed -e 's/URL_GOOGLE_SDK_SITE="\([^"]*\)/\n\1\n/' | grep ^http)
	REPO="https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/"
	R=9
	while [ "$?" -eq "0" ];do
	((R += 1))
	XML="$XMLTMP"
	XMLTMP=`wget -qO - ${REPO}repository-$R.xml`
	done
	PACKAGES=($@)
	[ "${PACKAGES[0]}" == "" ] && PACKAGES=("platform-tools")
	NEWPATH=""
	TMPDIR=`mktemp -d`
	for PKG in ${PACKAGES[@]}; do
	PKGZIP=`echo "$XML" | xml2 | awk -F= '/sdk:url='$PKG'.*zip$/{print $2}' | grep -vE "(windows|macosx)\.zip$" | tail -1`
	wget -qO $TMPDIR/$PKGZIP ${REPO}$PKGZIP && \
	unzip -qo $TMPDIR/$PKGZIP -d "$DESTDIR/${PKGZIP%-linux.zip}" && \
	ln -sf `find "$DESTDIR/${PKGZIP%-linux.zip}" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | head -1` "$DESTDIR/$PKG" && \
	NEWPATH="$NEWPATH:$DESTDIR/$PKG" && \
	echo "${REPO}$PKGZIP unpacked to $DESTDIR/$PKG"
	done
	rm -rf "$TMPDIR"
	export PATH="$PATH$NEWPATH"
	echo -e "run the following command to make \$PATH changes permanent:\n"
	echo -e "\techo -e \"\\\nexport PATH=\\\"\\\$PATH$NEWPATH\\\"\\\n\" >> ~/.bashrc\n\n"
	echo -e '\nACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",' \
	'ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACES}=="*:ff420?:*", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev",' \
	'SYMLINK+="android/$env{ID_SERIAL_SHORT}"\n' > /etc/udev/rules.d/90-android.rules
	udevadm control --reload-rules
	udevadm trigger --action=add --subsystem-match=usb

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The script requires root permissions to install prerequisite packages. It downloads and unpacks adb and fastboot binaries into $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/platform-tools/ folder (or into ~/android/platform-tools/ if $ANDROID_SDK_HOME is not defined). The folder will be added to the current $PATH. And finally the script will create a universal udev rule to take care of device permissions for all Android devices regardless of their VendorID.

The script has been tested on 32 and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 and Debian 7.0, 7.1, 7.2.