TouchEgg in PureOS

Software PureOS
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I am new to PureOS and also pretty new to linux in general. In Ubuntu I was able to install TouchEgg from the repos. How do I go about installing an application that isn’t in the PureOS repos?

Thanks

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You could try these instructions

PureOS and Ubuntu are both based on Debian, so the package names might be the same.

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I actually tried following those instructions. I got an error when trying to clone from github. I must be missing some prerequisite to be able to clone from git. I don’t recall the exact error but can post later. Something related to “git clone command was unknown”. I have already done an update to apt-get so maybe git clone isn’t in the PureOs repo either?

git clone https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg.git

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Ah, yes, you would first need to install git.

sudo apt install git

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Thanks! I have git now. On the second step I am getting an error now too. “sudo apt-get build-dep touchegg” The error is => You must put some ‘source’ URIs in your sources.list
The only repo in sources.list is “deb https://repo.puri.sm/pureos green main”

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Does anyone know if I will run into issues if I add the Ubuntu repo to my sources.list file?

It appears pureos repo doesn’t contain as much as ubuntu repo but I am not sure if I should avoid trying this.

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Hmm, I believe that is discouraged.
What features does Touchegg offer that you want to see? Just curious

Edit: Having looked at the instructions again slightly more carefully, have you tried skipping the build-dep part and doing this instead?

sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev utouch libgeis-dev libx11-6 libxtst-dev

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You can set it up to do different gestures with the touchpad. I like 3 finger swipe to go back a page in a browser.

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There are the two packages that I am having trouble getting installed. “utouch” and “libgeis-dev”

If anyone has suggestions on how to proceed please let me know. I am guessing I need to find the git code and manually build them, but not positive.

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libgeis-dev is in Debian, so if you add Debian to your sources.list you ought to be able to pull that in. I can’t find “utouch” anywhere, not even in Ubuntu. What is trying to pull that in? What error messages are you getting?