How To Install mouseemu on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mouseemu
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mouseemu
mouseemu is:
Mouseemu is a daemon to emulate mouse buttons on trackpads with only one button. It lets you:
- emulate middle and right click
- emulate mouse wheel
- block trackpad while typing
It was initially developed for Apple PowerBooks and iBooks, but it may be useful on other architectures as well.
This program only works when booting a 2.6 kernel because it uses the new uinput interface to emulate the mouse.
There are three methods to install mouseemu
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mouseemu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mouseemu
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mouseemu
Install mouseemu Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mouseemu
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mouseemu
Install mouseemu Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mouseemu
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mouseemu
How To Uninstall mouseemu on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mouseemu
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mouseemu
Uninstall mouseemu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mouseemu
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mouseemu
Remove mouseemu Configurations and Data
To remove mouseemu
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mouseemu
Remove mouseemu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mouseemu
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mouseemu
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mouseemu
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.