Force Feedback new-lg4ff Install problems

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The most appropriate way to install software under Arch / EndeavourOS, is from the official packages.

To install software from the official packages, you would use pacman (replacing somepackage with an actual package name) :

sudo pacman -S somepackage

If it’s not available there, as is the case with this particular software you’re trying to install, you might then check the AUR. Turns out, it is there.
AUR > new-lg4ff-dkms-git

To install things from the AUR, you use yay :

yay -S somepackage

So to install the Logitech Force Feedback module, you would:

yay -S new-lg4ff-dkms-git

Now before you do that, you need to make sure you have your kernel headers installed, because a DKMS module (which this package is), needs to be built into your kernel, and that’s done using the kernel headers.

For example, if running the standard kernel, you just need to make sure linux-headers is installed:

sudo pacman -S linux-headers
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