The android SDK has ADB in it which allows you to run commands on your phone from your PC as well as many other tools.
Download the Latest SDK for linux from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
cd ~ mkdir android tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/android-sdk_r06-linux_86.tgz mv android-sdk-linux_86 ~/android/sdk
now that everything is unzipped time to set our path to include ~/android/sdk/tools
cd ~ sudo gedit .bashrc
in the text editor that opens paste in the following line at the bottom
export PATH=${PATH}:~/android/sdk/tools
save the file and exit