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I've been trying to set up ds4drv and have problems understanding what to do with the files after extraction, (if if I'm supposed to extract at all). I'm aware I may have to download python as well.

Would someone kindly walk me through step by step?

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  • Welcome to AskUbuntu! Please review http://askubuntu.com/help/how-to-ask to get an idea how our Q & A site works and how you can best [edit] your post to help us help you! – Elder Geek Mar 27 '17 at 21:18
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    You already have python installed (please don't mess with it!) You may need some additional python packages but installing them will be trivial :) Please [edit] your question to add what you have done so far and link to the instructions you are trying to follow. For example, what problems do you have following this? – Zanna Mar 28 '17 at 05:45

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I assume you've downloaded it from the GitHub project. If not, doesn't matter. We can use the recommended install method, straight from that page:

Stable release

Installing the latest release is simple by using pip:

$ sudo pip install ds4drv

Now, before we can do this, we need to set up some things. Fortunately, this is easy. Just run all of the below commands to install the prerequisite packages and binaries (pip):

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
sudo easy_install pip

Once you're done, run the commands specified on the GitHub page. You will be able to launch DS4DRV from the command line by just running ds4drv.

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  • Uhm, why not simply sudo apt-get install python-pip? Is it really necessary do build it from source (even via easy-install)? Otherwise +1. – David Foerster Mar 30 '17 at 10:27