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Setup Flutter on Linux / Ubuntu without Android Studio

This Guide will walk you through to the installation of Flutter to your Linux Machine. We are not installing Android Studio, we will set flutter up to Visual Studio Code. Basically we need - Flutter , Java JDK , Andoid SDK Toolchain. So let's install.

Download Flutter 3.0.5
Download Android SDK Tools

Our all resources downloaded successfully. So first we will install Java Developement Kit (JDK) 17. For that, install synaptic package manager. It will help us to install JDK 17.

sudo apt install synaptic

Now open Synaptic and search Open JDK 17 and install it.

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Now on your User Home Directory create a new folder and name it Android

Extact those resourse inside Android folder like this.

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Set Path for Flutter and Android SDK

Let's set path to use Flutter and SDK globally. On user home directory , show hidden files from setting and find the bash.rc file and open it on a text editor and paste those line at the bottom, then save it and restart your PC.

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export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Android/flutter/bin"
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Android/Sdk"
export ANDROID_TOOLS="$HOME/Android/android-sdk/cmdline-tools/latest"
export ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS="$HOME/Android/android-sdk/platform-tools"
PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME:$ANDROID_TOOLS:$ANDROID_PLATFORM_TOOLS:

Install Adb and Linux Toolchain and VS Code

sudo apt-get install adb clang cmake ninja-build libgtk-3-dev git -y

Download Visual Studio Code Editor

Verify Flutter Installation

To verify our installation run this command.

flutter doctor

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