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title: Manual Installation
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layout: page
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# Manual installation
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## Downloading
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Clone Solaar from GitHub by `git clone https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar.git`
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## Requirements for Solaar
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Installing Solaar from a repository should have set up all these requirements
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so in this situation you should be able to skip this section.
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Solaar needs a reasonably new kernel with kernel modules `hid-logitech-dj`
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and `hid-logitech-hidpp` loaded.
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Most of Solaar should work fine with any kernel more recent than 5.2,
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but newer kernels might be needed for some devices to be correctly recognized and handled.
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The `udev` package must be installed and its daemon running.
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Solaar requires Python 3.7+ and requires several packages to be installed.
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If you are running the system version of Python you should have the
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`python3-pyudev`, `python3-psutil`, `python3-xlib`, `python3-evdev`,
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and `python3-yaml` or `python3-pyyaml` packages installed.
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To run the GUI Solaar also requires Gtk3 and its GObject introspection bindings.
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If you are running the system version of Python
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the Debian/Ubuntu packages you should have
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`python3-gi` and `gir1.2-gtk-3.0` installed.
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in Fedora you need `gtk3` and `python3-gobject`.
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You may have to install `gcc` and the Python development package (`python3-dev` or `python3-devel`,
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depending on your distribution).
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If you are running a version of Python different from the system version,
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you may need to use pip to install projects that provide the above Python packages.
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Solaar runs best under X11 with the Xtest extension enabled so that Solaar rules can fake keyboard input using Xtest.
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Solaar also uses the X11 library to access the XKB extension,
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which requires installation of the X11 development package.
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(In Fedora this is `libX11-devel`. In other distributions it may be `libX11-dev`.)
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Solaar will run under Wayland but some parts of Solaar rules will not work.
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For more information see [the rules page](https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/rules).
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Solaar needs a library to interact with the system tray.
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The library that provides this interaction depends on the distribution and window system.
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If ayatana appindicator is available then it is best to have this library installed,
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e.g., by installing `libayatana-appindicator` or `gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1` or similar,
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depending on distribution.
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Otherwise appindicator can sometimes be used,
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e.g., by installing `libappindicator-gtk3` or `gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1` or similar,
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depending on distribution.
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If desktop notifications bindings are also installed
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(`gir1.2-notify-0.7` for Debian/Ubuntu),
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you will also see desktop notifications when devices come online/go offline.
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### Installing Solaar's udev rule
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Solaar needs to write to HID devices for receivers and devices.
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To be able to do this without running as root requires a udev rule
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that gives seated users write access to the HID devices for Logitech receiver and devices.
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You can install this rule by copying, as root,
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`rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules` from Solaar to
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`/etc/udev/rules.d`.
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You will probably also have to tell udev to reload its rule via
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`sudo udevadm control --reload-rules`.
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For this rule to set up the correct permissions for your receivers and devices
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you will then need to either disconnect your receivers and
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any USB-connected or Bluetooth-connected devices and
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re-connect them or reboot your computer.
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## Running from the Download Directories
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To run Solaar from the download directories, first install the Solaar udev rule if necessary.
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Then cd to the solaar directory and run `bin/solaar` for the GUI
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or `bin/solaar <command> <arguments>` for the CLI.
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Do not run Solaar as root, you may encounter problems with X11 integration and with the system tray.
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## Installing Solaar Using Pip
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Python programs are usually installed using [pip][pip].
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The pip instructions for Solaar are in `setup.py`, the standard place to put such instructions.
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To install Solaar for yourself only run `pip install --user .` from the solaar directory.
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This tells pip to install into your `.local` directory, but does not install Solaar's udev rule.
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(See above for installing the udev rule.)
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Once the udev rule has been installed you can then run Solaar as `~/.local/bin/solaar`.
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Installing python programs to system directories using pip is generally frowned on both
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because this runs arbitrary code as root and because this can override existing python libraries
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that other users or even the system depend on. If you want to install solaar to /usr/local run
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`sudo bash -c 'umask 022 ; pip install .'` in the solaar directory.
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(The umask is needed so that the created files and directories can be read and executed by everyone.)
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Then solaar can be run as /usr/local/bin/solaar.
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You will also have to install the udev rule.
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[pip]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager)
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## Solaar in other languages
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If you want to have Solaar's user messages in some other language you need to run
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`tools/po-compile.sh` to create the translation files before running or installing Solaar
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and set the LANGUAGE environment variable appropriately when running Solaar.
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## Running Solaar at Startup
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Distributions can cause Solaar can be run automatically at user login by installing a desktop file at
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`/etc/xdg/autostart/solaar.desktop`. An example of this file content can be seen in the repository at
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[share/autostart/solaar.desktop](https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar/blob/master/share/autostart/solaar.desktop).
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If you install Solaar yourself you may need to create or modify this file or install a startup file under your home directory.
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## Installing from PyPI
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As an alternative to downloading and installing you can install the most recent release
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(but not the current github version) of Solaar from PyPI.
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Just run `pip install --user solaar`.
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This will not install the Solaar udev rule, which you will need to copy from
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`~/.local/share/solaar/udev-rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules`
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to `/etc/udev/rules.d` as root.
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