How to install Sony Flash Tool on Leap 42.1

English Applications
1

Okay, to be honest, I am pretty new to Linux, especially to OpenSuse. So, please forgive me if I am asking a stupid question.

I want to install Sony Flash Tool on OpenSuse Leap 42.1 but I have no idea on how to do that.

Can anyone please provide a step-by-step guide?

2

if you are talking about this
http://developer.sonymobile.com/services/flash-tool/how-to-download-and-install-the-flash-tool/
the answer is you can not, that’s a windowze only tool
you could and try using it with wine but the result of flashing a phone via wine is unknown.

3

Actually yes, that’s the tool I am talking about. However, I don’t think it is a windows-only tool because I did install it on Ubuntu 14.04 and even 15.04 without a glitch. In fact, I didn’t use Wine or PlayOnLinux. Here is the link that I used as guide. It was a native installation with its GUI slightly different from Windows-based GUI (not a big difference though). So, I was just wondering that if Ubuntu allows flash tool installation, is there a possible way for installing the same in OpenSuse?

4

I just downloaded that file and the zip only has a 32bit windowz app. there might be an unofficial Linux port but it’s not on sony’s download page.

edit.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/464169/how-do-i-install-flashtool-0-91-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts
you could have started with that and that is not a sony tool it’s a tool for sony phones it’s not the same.
it seams there is an unofficial deb file, you can not install deb’s on an rpm system, but there are 2 things you can try
#1 use alien to convert the deb to rpn and then install it with rpm or zypper
https://software.opensuse.org/package/alien
#2 use an unpacking tool like krusader to unpack the content if the deb and to a local folder and then execute the binary

5

There is actually a .deb file for the tool. I really have no idea whether it is official sony or just unofficial linux port. All I know is that there is a .deb file for the tool which installs the flash tool on ubuntu. That actually left me wondering if there is any way out for Suse.

6

Whoa! That sounds herculean. I will give it a try but I may just end up using windows at the end. But it is definitely worth giving a try as I can learn something new here.

Thank you so much for helping out. :))

7

I remember a few years ago I tried (unsuccessfully) to flash a droid device, but I didn’t edit the udev so that might have been my error.
try reading this
http://www.flashtool.net/lininstall.php
and see this tool
http://www.flashtool.net/downloads_linux.php

try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z/orig-development/tool-z-flashtool-version-0-9-11-0-t2162907