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title: Manual Installation
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layout: page
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# Manual installation
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### Requirements
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You should have a reasonably new kernel (4.0+), with kernel modules `hid-logitech-dj`
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and `hid-logitech-hidpp` loaded. Also, the `udev` package must be installed
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and the daemon running. If you have a recent Linux distribution (2017+), you are
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most likely good to go.
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Solaar requires Python 3.2+
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and the `python3-pyudev` package.
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To run the GUI, solaar also requires Gtk3, and its GObject
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Introspection bindings. The Debian/Ubuntu package names are
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`python3-gi` and `gir1.2-gtk-3.0`;
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in Fedora you only need `python3-gobject`;
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if you're using another
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distribution the required packages are most likely named something similar.
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If the 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 get desktop notifications when devices come online/go offline.
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For gnome-shell/Unity support, you also need to have `gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1`
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installed in Debian/Ubuntu.
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### Downloading
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Clone solaar from GitHub via `git clone https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar.git`
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### Running from the Download Directories
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To access the USB devices you may need to run solaar as super user.
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Go to the solaar directory and `sudo bin/solaar` for the GUI
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or `sudo bin/solaar <command> <arguments>` for the CLI.
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If you are running a security-enhanced Linux (RedHat or Fedora)
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you may have to turn off enforcing mode.
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### Installation
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Normally USB devices are not accessible for r/w by regular users, so you will
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need to do a one-time udev rule installation to allow access to the Logitech
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Unifying Receiver.
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You can run the `rules.d/install.sh` script from Solaar to do this installation
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automatically (make sure to run it as your regular desktop user, it will switch
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to root when necessary), or you can do all the required steps by hand, as the
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root user:
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1. Copy `rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules` from Solaar to
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`/etc/udev/rules.d/`. The `udev` daemon will automatically pick up this file
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using inotify.
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By default, the rule allows all members of the `plugdev` group to have
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read/write access to the Unifying Receiver device. (standard Debian/Ubuntu
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group for pluggable devices). It may need changes, specific to your
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particular system's configuration. If in doubt, replacing `GROUP="plugdev"`
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with `GROUP="<your username>"` should just work.
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2. Physically remove the Unifying Receiver and re-insert it.
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This is necessary because if the receiver is already plugged-in, it already
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has a `/dev/hidrawX` device node, but with the old (`root:root`) permissions.
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Plugging it again will re-create the device node with the right permissions.
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3. Make sure your desktop users are part of the `plugdev` group, by running
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`gpasswd -a <desktop username> plugdev`. If these users were not assigned to the
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group before, they must re-login for the changes to take effect.
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Then solaar can be run from the download directory without using sudo.
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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. You can then run solaar as
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`~/.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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[pip]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(package_manager) |