"sdkmanager: command not found" after installing Android SDK

Question

I installed via apt-get install android-sdk.

However, doing a find / -name sdkmanager reveals there is no such binary anywhere on the system.

On my Mac, the binary exists in $ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin.

However, on the Ubuntu system (the system with the issue), the binary does not exist there:

$ ls $ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
e2fsck
fsck.ext4
mkfs.ext4
resize2fs
screenshot2
tune2fs

Where is the sdkmanager?

Edit:

Not sure why the above didn't install sdkmanager, however, one solution I found was to install manually (instead of via apt-get) by downloading the Linux files at https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads under the "Command line tools only" header.

Answer 1

On Ubuntu 18.04, the binary sdkmanager is indeed not included in the apt-package android-sdk.

This worked for me:

1. Install android-sdk via apt, as you described:

apt-get install android-sdk

2. Set environment variable ANDROID_HOME if not done yet. For example:

export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/lib/android-sdk

3. Download and install the command line tools of Android Studio from https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads. You actually don't need the full Android Studio, just the command line tools.

wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-6609375_latest.zip
unzip commandlinetools-linux-6609375_latest.zip -d cmdline-tools
sudo mv cmdline-tools $ANDROID_HOME/
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools/bin:$PATH

By placing it as a subdirectory of ANDROID_HOME, you can further omit having to provide argument --sdk_root to sdkmanager as described here: Android Command line tools sdkmanager always shows: Warning: Could not create settings