Rooting Tbolt with Linux

[Smitty_82]

Having trouble finding any root instructions for Linux. Been looking for a while and any links would be appreciated. The best lead I've had said to use adb method through terminal, but haven't been able to confirm.

 

[fatboy97]

Having trouble finding any root instructions for Linux. Been looking for a while and any links would be appreciated. The best lead I've had said to use adb method through terminal, but haven't been able to confirm.

The ADB method in one of the sticky threads at the top of this section is THE way of rooting the Thunderbolt.

 

[Smitty_82]

The ADB method in one of the sticky threads at the top of this section is THE way of rooting the Thunderbolt.

I figured that, just trying to figure out if there are any LINUX specific directions. There usually are a few differences. I don't have Windows on my laptop. I was just trying to confirm that it would work before doing it.

 

[bAdSR16]

I actually just rooted mine in Linux (running Kubuntu 11.04), and all went perfectly. I did run into a permission denied message on the chmod steps, so i just used 'sudo su' to run the rest of the steps as root, and it went smoothly after that.

The other main differences for me: I didn't use the TBroot.zip file used in the instructions on these forums since I already have the sdk set up; and there's also no need for HTC Sync in Linux, you should be able to just plug it in and use drive mode

Hope that helps!

 

[Smitty_82]

Thanks for the input, I'll prob be working on it over the weekend.