[Replicant] alternative ways to install Replicant (previous title began can Replicant get installed without )

[Chadvellacott]

    Thanks for the swift reply.

    I modified the subject-title.  I hope that this is OK for this 
mailing-list.  I tried to search for some thing about "etiquette" or 
"netiquette" on Replicant's list-archive, and did not find any thing.

    Responses lower down.

    I am glad for such a libre system to be available for at least some 
tablets and phones.
    Thanks for supporting libre computing.


Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote on 2018/05/01 1:31 PM:
> On ~ 1[.5.]2018 12:38:43 -0600
> Chadvellacott <chadvellacott at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
>> can Replicant get installed without using heimdall or odin or
>> jOdin? if yes, then how?
> heimdall or fastboot are used to install Replicant's recovery.

      Right, fastboot.  I read, I guess here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWRP#Functions
    that fastboot was a way to install a recovery.
    May-be I ought to have mentioned fastboot be-fore hitting "send"!

> The recovery can then be used to install Replicant.
> 
> There are other ways to install a recovery, but they are more
> complicated.
> 
> Why do you want to install Replicant without using heimdall:
> - Because it's too complicated?

    I can type, at a command-prompt, some thing which I read, if that is 
what you mean.

> - Because you didn't succeed in using heimdall because of
>    hardware/software issues like having a broken USB port?

    No.  I am not sure how to describe the problem.  Probably not worth 
our time, for me to try to describe it now.

      I plan to try "fastboot".
    It seems that I can use that (and even "ADB", and "MkBootImg" if 
needed) on "Parabola" if I install package "android-tools", since
https://www.parabola.nu/packages/community/i686/android-tools/files/
    lists these files
usr/bin/fastboot
usr/bin/adb
usr/bin/mkbootimg
    and even lists this file
usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fastboot

      So then for fastboot, what commands and parameters and syntax, 
should a person type, for installing or else simply updating, 
Replicant's recovery, at least for the biggest supported devices (Tab 2 
10.1/7, Px1xx) and the biggest camera-enabled devices (Note 8.0, n51xx)?


    I am glad for such a libre system to be available for at least some 
tablets and phones.
    Thanks for supporting libre computing.

    Chad.