Preparation for this recipe consists of installing the ssdeep package in pip. The installation is a little tricky and does not always work on Windows. Instructions can be found at https://python-ssdeep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html.

If you only have a Windows machine and installing ssdeep does not work, then one possible solution is to run ssdeep on an Ubuntu VM, and then install it in pip, using the following command: 

pip install ssdeep