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I followed the procedure explained in the main PPA page:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/aftl-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-file-transfer

and I received this message after use:

sudo apt-get install android-file-transfer

E: Unable to locate package android-file-transfer
Thomas Ward
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Nicolas Bortolotti
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There is a problem with the packaging of the PPA for Bionic. You can instead use Artful PPA to install Android File Transfer on Ubuntu 18.04. (Same version, 3.2-1 as of the time of writing)

First add the PPA to your sources:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0BB4A1B2FA1A38EB
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/samoilov-lex/aftl-stable/ubuntu artful main"

Make sure to run a sudo apt update to load the new packages, then install android-file-transfer the usual way:

sudo apt install android-file-transfer
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Eskander Bejaoui
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The following steps were required before I finally got this to run:

  1. Plug in phone via USB cable.
  2. (on Android device) yes allow access.
  3. (on Ubuntu) click 'eject' to unmount the Nautilus (file explorer) automount of the device.
  4. Run sudo pkill mtp
  5. Run android-file-transfer
karel
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eh haole
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I was also getting issue to install android file transfer on kubuntu 18.04. At last I find best solution appimage base, and its work for me. I am sharing link appimage link

https://github.com/whoozle/android-file-transfer-linux/releases/download/v3.7/Android_File_Transfer-5bf7652-x86_64.AppImage

It will work. We only have to change permission 

sudo chmod +x Android_File_Transfer-5bf7652-x86_64.AppImage
Desert P
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Have a problem - can't run this app. It shows first a window with msg

"Device is busy, maybe another process is using it.

The following processes are keeping file descriptors for your device: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-mtp (pid: 13865) Close other MTP applications and restart Android File Transfer.

Press Abort to kill them or Ignore to try next device."

If Ignore presed, it returns "No MTP Device found"

Aborting doesn't work - it returns msg

"Device locked..."

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