How do I install bundletool?

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Although the docs mentioned

If you haven't already done so, download bundletool from the GitHub repository.

However, the repo contains only a jar file. How do I install it so that I can run with the 'bundletool' command just like the docs' example?

meanwhile you can run it using `java -jar bundletool-all-0.6.2.jar` — Tim, Nov 14 '18 at 11:23
I wonder how many people came here from https://github.com/google/bundletool/releases - how hard would it be to add an install/use section to the repo — mekdigital, Sep 29 '22 at 23:53

score 164 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '19 at 08:30

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If you have brew installed simply run brew install bundletool and the alias will be set up for you as well. It did the trick for me.

answered May 02 '19 at 08:30

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If you don't have `brew`, with this instruction you can install it https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux – Ali Rezaiyan Jul 12 '19 at 06:32
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Results in "Error: No available formula with the name "bundetool" – Johann Jul 20 '19 at 07:56
Do you have brew installed, @AndroidDev? – flarkmarup Jul 20 '19 at 08:02
Yes I do. It also took a very long time to update itself, after which it attempted to install bundletool but with no success. Brew 2.1.7 running on a Mac. – Johann Jul 20 '19 at 08:06

Pierre · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-01T09:56:39.463

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You can create an alias (or doskey on Windows), e.g.

alias bundletool='java -jar bundletool-all.jar'

edited Mar 01 '19 at 09:56

answered Nov 15 '18 at 12:59

Pierre

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I thought it was a command line tool you could install as first. This is what I did in my terminal right now. Thanks – Vincent Paing Nov 15 '18 at 15:30
Is this an exact command in Windows command line? 'alias' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. – Yar Apr 17 '20 at 05:24
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As mentioned in the parenthesis, it's called doskey on Windows. – Pierre Apr 17 '20 at 13:56
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I am on linux and I have jdk8 installed, this shows `Error: Unable to access jarfile bundletool.jar` – Dimitri Kopriwa Aug 10 '21 at 14:15
I just typed in cmd: doskey bundletool=java -jar C:\Users\user\bundletool-all-1.14.0.jar $* And then bundletool worked for me – Ricardo Araque Apr 12 '23 at 22:10

score 42 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 04 '19 at 12:20

Another alternative is access Bundletool release page and download the bundletool-all-[LAST-VERSION].jar file into some directory.

After that you could run it on the directory calling:

java -jar bundletool-all-0.10.2.jar your_arguments_here

If you want, rename the jar file to bundletool.jar, then run it calling:

java -jar bundletool.jar your_arguments_here

If you don't want call java every time, you can create an alias for that, and after that run quicly:

alias bundletool='java -jar bundletool-all.jar'

bundletool your_arguments_here

This answer solved my problem, I used bundletool to extract an apk from aab files — Edison Pebojot, Feb 23 '21 at 11:24

score 19 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 10 '21 at 17:32

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On a mac, it can be easily done using homebrew

brew install bundletool

then you can run commands like this

bundletool install-apks --apks=release.apks

you can use the command below to generate apks

bundletool build-apks --bundle=aab_path.aab --output=release.apks

The above command generates apks file which can later be extracted to give various apk files.

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answered Nov 06 '19 at 13:15

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Gg M · Answer 5 · 2020-06-04T10:23:29.757

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To make shortcut/alias in Windows 10, in cmd run:

@doskey bundletool=java -jar <youPath>\bundletool-all.jar $*

You must be already added Java folder path to system environment variables or just google it.

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answered Apr 01 '20 at 09:16

Gg M

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I updated my answer by append $*,thanks for you comment. – Gg M Jun 04 '20 at 10:25
after restarting pc, this command need to paste again in cmd , windows – Shihab Uddin Jul 15 '20 at 09:12
got this to work `@doskey` is what we need. – sud007 Jun 09 '21 at 09:50

J.Stange · Answer 6 · 2021-04-30T10:16:32.690

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Apparently for Linux you have to download the jar from: https://github.com/google/bundletool/releases

and then run java -jar <PATH_TO_JAR> ...

to simplify things you can add in /usr/local/bin/ a bundletool script

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
exec java -jar "$HOME/path/to/jar" "$@"

and sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bundletool

Now you can run bundletool from wherever you want

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answered Apr 30 '21 at 10:10

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 19 '21 at 08:52

As for me, on windows, I just set assoc and ftype so that .jar will open with java -jar

First I download bundletool.someversion.jar into some folder under PATH env (so that it would exposed)

Open cmd as admin and link .jar to jarfile with cmd assoc .jar=jarfile (actually can be any name, make it jarfile is just convention in the same way as other file)

Then ftype jarfile=^%JAVA_HOME^%\bin\java.exe -jar %1 %~2

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/ftype

Then we could execute bundletool.someversion.jar or any jar to open it as java directly

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 05 '22 at 10:39

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You don't need to have

brew.

Install it somewhere, but not in your project directory
npm install bundletool

answered Aug 05 '22 at 10:39

Bohdan Zahreba

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