I am on Ubuntu 14.04. I have followed the instructions here

Specifically:

curl > ~/bin/repo
chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

However, after doing so a html file is downloaded. There does not appear to be an executable file. If I then run repo init, it gives the following error:

"The program 'repo' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing apt-get install phablet-tools"

Now typing this will of course work. The problem is, I cannot use the phablet-tools packaged version of repo, as it is not approved. So how exactly do I get repo installed?

Here are the first few lines of the file that is downloaded:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# repo default configuration
#
import os
REPO_URL = os.environ.get('REPO_URL', None)
if not REPO_URL: REPO_URL = '
REPO_REV = 'stable'

If I try to open the file in a browser I get a 404 "the requested ULR /fit-repo was not found on this server."

Here is a link to the complete file as downloaded.

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The program was downloaded correctly (At least from the parts you pasted here it seems to be the valid repo python script). You probably need to add the ~/bin directory to your PATH variable to make it work.

To do this, you need to run the following command in your Terminal:
export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"

Check now if the repo command works.

If it works, to make those changes persistent, simply add this command from above to the end of your .bashrc file.

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