Sdkmanager / adb install via Raspberry Pi OS?

[beta-L-user]

I’m preparing to install /e/OS on an Fairphone 4 for the first time.

It is suggested to do the installation process via Linux/Ubuntu. Is it also possible to do the installation process on an Raspberry Pi using Raspberry Pi OS? I’m asking because the managed packets on RPis are not always the lastest. (RPis are present of any kind, including an Pi 5 with 16GB)

Does anyone have experience using RPis for installation of /e/OS?

best regards,

beta-L-user

[piero]

Hello @beta-L-user, Welcome to the /e/ users forum.

Following these, you don’t need to install anything on the Computer

@piero

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in 3 copy / paste actions !

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because even well illustrated, the “web-installer” often don’t work,

and because the official documentation is imbuvable for a new user.

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here we take the Fairphone 6 as example,
but it is the same logical and quite the same process for all the devices that have :

• only "IMG-e-xxxxxxxxxxx.zip" file on their download page,

[smu44]

Please read here: Install android-platform-tools on Raspberry Pi using the Snap Store | Snapcraft.

I installed /e/OS on a Moto device a while ago (was A13 or 12, can’t remember), using a Banana Pi running Armbian. Went fine!

v25.8.2 for Banana Pi M5 running Armbian Linux 6.12.57-current-meson64

root@bananapim5:\~# snap search android-platform-tools
Name                    Version  Publisher   Notes  Summary
android-platform-tools  35.0.1   fredldotme  -      Android development tools

SDK Platform Tools release notes  |  Android Studio  | ...

[beta-L-user]

Hello piero,

I ended up trying to install from Windows 11.

Thanks for your answer, but in fact the web-installer didn’t work. Reason why it didn’t work was that Windows 11 didn’t recognise the fairphone 4’s adb-driver and unlocking of the bootloader didn’t work.

The fairphone told me that the bootloader was still locked. I had to follow the step-by-step-guide using the driver-guide from GitHub - fawazahmed0/Latest-adb-fastboot-installer-for-windows: A Simple Android Driver installer tool for windows (Always installs the latest version) (Thanks to him!). Using this tool I had the proper adb-driver to use the mentioned commands to unlock the bootloader, following the upload of /e/OS (official version 14) and locking the bootloader finally.

After all that the fairphone 4 (with /e/OS) was not known by Windows 11 and I had to remove the former installed driver (not the device only) by uninstalling, and searching for the correct device-driver.

After some extra hours of investigations I have what I wanted to have: my /e/OS-fairphone.

best regards and thanks for your help

beta-L-user

[beta-L-user]

Thx smu44,

I decided to do it using Windows 11 - maybe the wrong decision, but finally I own a fairphone 4 with /e/OS.

thx,

beta-L-user