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Android ADB sudo path problem

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http://askubuntu.com – I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and I have installed Android SDK, set it's path in my user .bashrc and it works. The problem is that my phone requires adb to be ran by root for permissions, but running adb with sudo I get the following error: sudo: adb: command not found I tried to simply use sudo -E adb start-server, but it doesn't work. Tried to add the export path line to /root/.bashrc and (after realizing it didn't help) to /etc/bash.bashrc. I remember I could set it on my Arch Linux, but I guess my problem now is connected to Ubuntu root account not behaving like I expect it. What I don (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 11/06/2012 – Made popular on 11/06/2012

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