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I've been installing all the required dependencies for gpointing-device-settings which I don't have (figuring out by running ./configure and seeing what causes errors). But I've gotten to an error that I have not been able to get past.

screenshot of terminal displaying error message

I've done

  1. install gnome-settings-daemon but that doesn't stop the error
sudo apt-get install gnome-settings-daemon

and installing the .deb file which results in more dependency issues (which I get even though they are installed)

  1. add path of gnome-settings-daemon to PATH and to PKG_CONFIG_PATH
    added the following to .profile
export PATH="/usr/lib:$PATH"
export PATH="$HOME/usr/lib:$PATH"
PATH="/usr/lib:$PATH"
PATH="$HOME/usr/lib:$PATH"

have extra just in case (I'm a beginner and just wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing it wrong so I put in every combination)

paths as seen on terminal

Daniel Gros
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It seems that you are trying to compile the program its source code.

In such case you need to install special development packages (with -dev) suffix.

As the result you will get needed headers and Pkg-Config file(s) - .pc.

In this particular case you need to enable source code repositories in Software & Updates (software-properties-gtk) and install gnome-settings-daemon-dev package with:

sudo apt-get install gnome-settings-daemon-dev

and then proceed.

Also you can try to use binary packages way:

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gpointing-device-settings/libgpds0_1.5.1-6ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libgpds0_1.5.1-6ubuntu2_amd64.deb

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gpointing-device-settings/gpointing-device-settings_1.5.1-6ubuntu2_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./gpointing-device-settings_1.5.1-6ubuntu2_amd64.deb

About your original problem - you can find this thread about touchpad-indicator useful.

N0rbert
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