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Getting arduino to work on ubuntu without running as root
# install arduino ide
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install arduino arduino-core
# necessary to get into dialup group (at least for me), maybe reboot afterwards
sudo apt-get remove modemmanager
# add user to the dialout group
sudo usermod -a -G dialout <my-username>
# arduino should work now without beeing root
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