sdkmanager tool not present in tools/bin after `apt-get install android-sdk`

[James Ko]

This issue was originally reported at: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/android-sdk-meta/+question/670196.

(1) (2) System info:

james@james-Inspiron-13-5378:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy android-sdk
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
Linux james-Inspiron-13-5378 4.15.0-23-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 18:02:16 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
android-sdk:
  Installed: 25.0.0+8
  Candidate: 25.0.0+8
  Version table:
 *** 25.0.0+8 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(3) Expected: sdkmanager should be in $ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
(4) It's not. The other tools that are listed at ___ are missing as well, in fact:

james@james-Inspiron-13-5378:/usr/lib/android-sdk$ ls tools/bin
e2fsck fsck.ext4 mkfs.ext4 resize2fs screenshot2 tune2fs

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: android-sdk 25.0.0+8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jun 15 19:28:11 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-12 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: android-sdk-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)]

It is true, not everything is there yet. Google makes it really hard to package them all. Right now sdkmanager is blocked by Kotlin, which is coming along, but still needs work. Contributions welcome!

https://wiki.debian.org/AndroidTools