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Originally Posted by delph
I don't have a 2013 N7, but I do have an N5 that I successfully rooted using linux after the 5.1 update. I installed android-tools-adb and android-tools-fastboot from this ppa. I'm actually running Debian sid, but had no trouble with those packages. I have never been able to straight up install the Android SDK and have it recognize my Java and so on properly, so I went the lazy route and used those tools.
From there, you can go here and start with "Check if you have permission for your device" (or you can ignore my entire first paragraph and follow that thread).
Once you can see your device using adb, you should be able to follow the directions to unlock your bootloader or root in this thread. Only the prerequisite part of that post is for Windows only.
ETA: If you have a custom recovery already installed, you might be able to just flash SuperSu. That works on the N5. I'm not sure about the N7. |
Congratulations! Root access is properly installed on this device!
In fact there was really not much to it. I have no idea where I went astray with my previous attempts...
Badly written howto's making things appear much more complicated than they are may have had something to do with it. Once I was confident the version of Android had nothing to do with it I just followed the thread you linked to and the rest is history.
Many Thanks,
CJ