How To Install touchegg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install touchegg
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is touchegg
touchegg is:
Touchégg is a cross-platform multitouch gesture recognizer that allows associating actions to each gesture.
There are three methods to install touchegg
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 touchegg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install touchegg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install touchegg
Install touchegg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install touchegg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install touchegg
Install touchegg 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 touchegg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install touchegg
How To Uninstall touchegg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the touchegg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove touchegg
Uninstall touchegg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall touchegg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove touchegg
Remove touchegg Configurations and Data
To remove touchegg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge touchegg
Remove touchegg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove touchegg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge touchegg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install touchegg
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.