Skip to content

Improve Linux installation instructions or update install.sh with udev rules #951

Open
@its-DomeE

Description

@its-DomeE

Describe the request

The current installation instructions only mention to add the user to the dialout group to be able to access serial ports. On some (newer) distros this won't work anymore.

Instead you need to modify the udev rules. In my case I had to add: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", TAG+="uaccess" to /etc/udev/rules.d/01-ttyusb.rules.

It would be great if this information would be added to the install instructions or maybe even add this rule by install.sh itself.

Describe the current behavior

If the current installation instructions are followed, serial ports can't be accessed on some distros because of a permission error.

Arduino IDE version

1.8.19

Operating system

Linux

Operating system version

Zorin OS 16.1 (based on Ubuntu 20.04)

Additional context

No response

Issue checklist

  • I searched for previous requests in the issue tracker
  • I verified the feature was still missing when using the latest nightly build
  • My request contains all necessary details

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

Labels

os: linuxSpecific to Linux operating systemtopic: documentationRelated to documentation for the projecttype: enhancementProposed improvement

Type

No type

Projects

No projects

Milestone

No milestone

Relationships

None yet

Development

No branches or pull requests

Issue actions