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How do I install Touchégg on Fedora 20?

https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/CompileSourceCode seems to be written for Ubuntu (Debian) systems, which makes me confused;

1 - Download and unzip the source code:

No problems. Just do what it says.

2 - Install Touchégg dependencies. In Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and recent open a terminal and type:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep touchegg

How do I do this in Fedora? Or, if necessary, how do I do the alternative version "sudo apt-get install build-essential libqt4-dev utouch libgeis-dev libx11-6 libxtst-dev" in Fedora?

3 - Compile and install Touchégg:
$ qmake
$ make
$ sudo make install

I didn't get this far, but can I do exactly as it says? Do qmake, make and make install exist in Fedora and work as in Ubuntu/Debian?

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  • Can you be more specific? How does https://code.google.com/p/touchegg/wiki/CompileSourceCode not provide enough information? – Bernhard Jun 20 '14 at 21:47
  • The guide seems to be for Ubuntu (Debian), and I don't know how to apt-get build-dep touchegg in Fedora, what additional packages I need or even how to compile and install (I'm very new to Fedora). – lindhe Jun 20 '14 at 21:54
  • You should do a source build (using v.1.1.1 currently at the top of this list); there's a link inside the README to here. If you have problems with that, you can ask more specific questions. – goldilocks Jun 21 '14 at 01:20
  • If you don't know how to build programs from source, better stay well away from this until you know a lot more about your system. "Just install (from source)" is very rarely the best option. – vonbrand Jun 22 '14 at 02:02
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    Great idea! Let's stay away from this until I magically know how to do it! :) – lindhe Jun 22 '14 at 12:44
  • @lindhe - do you still want a answer? – Wilf Mar 08 '15 at 16:59
  • Yes, that would be nice. – lindhe Mar 08 '15 at 18:45
  • 64bit and/or 32bit? (I pretty much have a solution using old package for Fedora 21 64bit). And do you wan the package for the GUI? – Wilf Mar 16 '15 at 19:57
  • I'm running 64-bit. I don't need a GUI, but it might be nice to include that for others. – lindhe Mar 17 '15 at 10:39
  • Just letting you guys know that it'll probably be quite a while before I'm looking into this again. I've been on Arch for a while, and everything works nice so I don't think I'll get back to Fedora any time soon. As a consequence I can't try possible answers, thus not marking them as "Correct answer" either. I let this one be open for the moment, someone might get an answer that helps them. – lindhe Jan 03 '16 at 13:58

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Try this link: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mhoeher/multitouch/ It gives a repository that you can pull from using dnf and includes all the dependancies needed.

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I don't think you will have too much luck doing this, but lets give a shot.

If you read the installation wiki, you will notice this:

If your are using a previous Ubuntu version or other distro these are the required packages:

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

So, you only need to find the equivalent package of each one:

  • utouch-evemu-devel is the equivalent to utouch in Fedora 19 and earlier versions, then they renamed it to geis, further complicating the problem. Search for geis-devel or utoch-evemu-devel packages. This should also solve the libgeis-dev package
  • build-essential is the easier, just run yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries".
  • libqt4-dev is libqt4-devel. RPM (RHEL and derivatives) uses -devel for development packages, contrasting APT's (Debian and derivatives) -dev.
  • libx11-6 is just libX11. If some problem arises, try the -devel package instead.
  • libXtst-devel is the equivalent to libxtst-dev.

This should account for all necessary packages. Once you have installed all of them, just run the good old qmake && make to make sure the packages build correctly. After that I recommend you to build an RPM package, so you can install and uninstall easily.

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  • Hm. I seem to have trouble installing the utouch equivalent. I found nothing good with yum search geis, ... utouch or ... utouch and qmake && make just gives ./src/touchegg/util/Include.h:36:27: fatal error: geis/geis.h: No such file or directory. Because I guess I should use qmake (installed qt-devel to get qmake-qt4) since there is no file "configure"?? ./configure just outputs bash: ./configure: No such file or directory. – lindhe Jun 21 '14 at 22:23
  • @lindhe you need to install geis-devel, no geis. – Braiam Nov 15 '18 at 17:02
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This seems to be extremely tricky in Fedora. I am trying in F23 on a Fujitsu Lifebook T935, which has a Wacom touchscreen.

I was able to download and compile various source packages from Ubuntu Lauchpad using Bazaar, which have the following dependency structure:

touchegg > geis > grail > frame

I also had to install a number of Fedora packages for other dependencies, but there is no current Fedora equivalent for these. Frame and Grail seemed to compile OK, but when I run make on geis I get exactly the same problem(s) as here (https://forums.archlinux.fr/viewtopic.php?t=14127) depending on whether or not I have a copy of frame_x11.h in /usr/local/include/oif - or equivalently symlink from /usr/local/src/geis/include to /usr/local/src/frame/include/oif

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