How To Install 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install 3dprinter-udev-rules in Fedora 36. 3dprinter-udev-rules is Rules for udev to give regular users access to operate 3D printers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36.

What is 3dprinter-udev-rules

Normally, when you connect a RepRap like 3D printer to a Linux machine by an USB cable, you need to be in dialout or similar group to be able to control it via OctoPrint, Printrun, Cura or any other control software. Not any more. Install this rule to grant all users read and write access to collected devices based on the VID and PID. Disclaimer might be a modem and it might even be a blender. But normally you would add your user to dialout and get access to all of those and more anyway. So I guess be careful when some of the users should not get access to your blenders.

We can use yum or dnf to install 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install 3dprinter-udev-rules.

Install 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install 3dprinter-udev-rules using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install 3dprinter-udev-rules

Install 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install 3dprinter-udev-rules using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install 3dprinter-udev-rules

How To Uninstall 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the 3dprinter-udev-rules package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove 3dprinter-udev-rules

3dprinter-udev-rules Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/66-3dprinter.rules
/usr/share/doc/3dprinter-udev-rules
/usr/share/doc/3dprinter-udev-rules/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/3dprinter-udev-rules
/usr/share/licenses/3dprinter-udev-rules/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install 3dprinter-udev-rules on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).