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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 (5.2+ should work fine and recent CentOS distributions are likely to work),
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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 its daemon running. If you have a recent Linux distribution, you are
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most likely good to go.
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Solaar requires Python 3.6+
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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.
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The Debian/Ubuntu packages that need to be installed are
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`python3-gi` and `gir1.2-gtk-3.0`;
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in Fedora you need `gtk3` and `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/Budgie Desktop/KDE/XFCE support, you also need to have
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`gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1` installed in Debian/Ubuntu. Although it is
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recommended to install and use `gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3-0.1` if it is
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available, you can also use `gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1` if necessary (e.g.,
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for Unity in Ubuntu).
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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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The udev daemon will automatically pick up this file using inotify.
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For this rule to set up the correct permissions for your receiver
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you will then need to either physically remove the receiver and
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re-insert it or reboot your computer.
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You only need to install Solaar's udev rule if it is not already installed
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on your system or you have a receiver that is not in the installed rule.
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## Running from the Download Directories
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If the latest Solaar udev rule is installed,
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you can just go 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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Otherwise, you will need to run Solaar as root via
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`sudo bin/solaar` for the GUI
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or `sudo bin/solaar <command> <arguments>` for the CLI.
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Warning: Running Solaar as root may result in problems with the Solaar icon in the system tray.
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## Installing Solaar
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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`.
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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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