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I see in a few places [1,2,3] that I can securely connect from my Ubuntu desktop to my Ubuntu phone using the command phablet-shell from the phablet-tools package. Yet, from a terminal on my desktop, phablet-shell returns phablet-shell: command not found

desktop~$ adb devices
  1111aaaa2222bbbb    device
desktop~$ phablet-shell
  phablet-shell: command not found
desktop~$ apt-cache policy phablet-tools
  Installed: 1.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
desktop~$ whereis phablet-shell
  phablet-shell:

How can I start a secure shell connection between my desktop and phone? Can I do it using universe packages?

[1] Shell on ubuntu touch

[2] Ubuntu touch - remote access to device

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/TouchTesting/BugReporting

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What is the output of dpkg -L phablet-tools? it should show you all the files installed by that package, and on my machine I can definitely see /usr/bin/phablet-shell among them.

I had a few issues to be able to connect afterwards, here's what I did:

  • Enable the developer mode on the phone (phablet-shell won't complain that it cannot connect, so it was a bit confusing at first)
  • simply running phablet-shell again didn't work either, so I tried as superuser: sudo phablet-shell
  • This worked, and the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file has been updated, but is now owned by root, restore the correct permissions: sudo chown youruser:youruser .ssh/known_hosts
  • phablet-shell now works!

And remember to unlock your device when you want to connect (just like when you want to transfer data), otherwise you'll get error: closed and exit code 255

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  • It seems that there's no phablet-shell on Ubuntu 14.04. – user205301 Mar 30 '15 at 18:32
  • Indeed I'm using 14.10 – berdario Mar 30 '15 at 18:33
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    I had the same issue and I needed to generate ssh public key before berdario's solution works. On your home directory : > ssh-keygen -t dsa After this and doing berdario's commands, I've got the right command line on my Ubuntu touch. – Free Rage Apr 16 '15 at 14:16
  • There is a [phablet-tools PPA](https://launchpad.net/~phablet-team/+archive/ubuntu/tools) for newer versions of the package. – Robert Fleming Jul 09 '15 at 08:26