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Please excuse me this is all virgin territory to me. Right I have Ubuntu 16.04 so I've been installing emus for it snes,nes,mega drive,etc. Well now I want to use my ps3 controller to play them. I got bluez-tools extracted the files but now how would I go about installing it and setting it up to use.Thanks in advance people hope you can help

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I needed to install the bluez-5.43 to get around bugs in the default bluez-5.37 when using bluetoothctl from scripts.

You could probably install the binary version from Zesty, but my experience is that you often run into other dependencies.

I just install the deb-src package from Zesty. You probably need to install other dependencies too, here is what I had to do.

sudo  apt-get install debhelper dh-autoreconf flex bison libdbus-glib-1-dev libglib2.0-dev  libcap-ng-dev libudev-dev libreadline-dev libical-dev check dh-systemd libebook1.2-dev

wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/bluez_5.43.orig.tar.xz
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/bluez_5.43-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/bluez_5.43-0ubuntu1.dsc

tar xf bluez_5.43.orig.tar.xz
cd bluez-5.43
tar xf ../bluez_5.43-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz
debchange --local=~lorenzen 'Backport to Xenial'
debuild -b -j4
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

For an explanation of what is happening here, please consult
https://askubuntu.com/a/771272/655086

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Peter Lorenzen
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    if debuild give an authentication error, try running with arguments "-uc -us" as suggested in http://serverfault.com/questions/191785/how-can-i-properly-sign-a-package-i-modified-and-recompiled – omer Apr 02 '17 at 13:06
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    i also needed apt-get install devscripts – Andy Feb 20 '18 at 22:23
  • i also needed gpg --gen-key for signing – Andy Feb 20 '18 at 22:32
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    I also needed to add -k$GPG_KEY to the debuild command. Where $GPG_KEY is the pub key you can find running gpg --list-key. Example: GPG_KEY=${gpg --list-key --with-colons | grep pub | awk -F: '{print $5}'} – garlix Jan 08 '19 at 11:21
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You don't need the extracted file (unless you're installing a particular version or the latest) as you can install from the repositories with the following command:

sudo apt install bluez-tools

Now simply use it.

George Udosen
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