Installing / Upgrading Solaar on Ubuntu 18.0.4
Logitech makes great peripherals. But getting them to work on Linux isn't always trivial. For Logitech devices that have a Unifying Receiver, Solaar can help. Solaar is "Linux Device Manager for Logitech Unifying Receivers and Paired Devices."
v1.0.0 is a major upgrade from the previous version 0.9.2. If you had 0.9.2 or earlier versions installed, you may first want to remove them:
$ sudo apt remove solaar
Solaar v1.0.0 is written in Python3. So, first install:
sudo apt install python3-pyudev
Now, install Solaar using pip:
sudo -H pip install solaar
Set up udev rules file:
$ sudo updatedb
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$ sudo locate 42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/etc/udev/rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules
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$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/etc/udev/rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
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Check if install was successfull:
$ solaar --version
solaar 1.0.2.1
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