Since you are new to linux (and probably you do not have enough knowledge about working in a terminal in Linux or MacOS) I'll try to give you some information regarding the steps you have performed in order to understand what you were doing wrong:
6.Basically the PATH variable is a environment variable containing several directory paths, separated by a colon. When you try to run a command in a terminal window(let's say "adb", without ./ in front of the command), the system will search the directories from the PATH variable for that specific command, and will execute the command found in the first directory. An error message will be printed if the command will not be found in any of the directories from PATH. This is why you received the error ""If 'adb' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf adb". To print the content of the PATH variable, use the command "echo $PATH" When executing "./adb", the system will try to run adb from the current directory. If you want to find out more information about the PATH variable, read: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/prepostpath.htm In order to create a file in a terminal window, you could run any console editor (nano, vi etc. ... I would recommend nano because its easier to use than vi) followed by the name of the file you want to edit. After modifying the file, you will just have to save the file (depending on the editor of your choice. In nano its CTRL+O ). In a *nix environment, all the hidden files will have a "." character in front of their names (this is why .bash_profile is "invisible") 7.In OpenSuse, if your repositories are correctly set, you can install nano using the following command: "sudo zypper install nano". You could also use any graphical editor you want (in Linux, default editors would be Gedit if you are using Gnome, or Kate if you are using KDE) NOTE: 1)While working with command in a terminal window, it should use tab completion (press the TAB key after you have entered the first characters of a command or directory, or TAB twice, if there are multiple commands/folder which begin with the characters you have entered). In time, when you'll get used with tab completion, it will help you a lot. 2) The above apply to a Linux environment, but should apply also to MacOS if you are using the BASH shell (which the author assumes, since he tells you to modify .bash_profile) Good luck. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
