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This is probably a dumb question--I'm pretty new to Linux, so I apologize in advance.

Doing some research for a gestures app, I discovered libinput-gestures. This Medium article suggests that it is compatible with Ubuntu 20.04. I know that I had installed something similar, and now I want to check if that was the one I had installed. With that background, I did some investigating into how to check if packages are installed. I found apt list --installed and dpkg --list. I know that if I filter down to apt list --installed | grep lib I do see a couple of lib-type packages, as does dkpg --list | grep libinput.

My question is twofold--what are these two package managers used for (clearly they serve different purposes, but Zanna's answer here suggests that the two operate together in some capacity), and how do I know where to search for a package like libinput-gestures?

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  1. The question "What is the difference between apt and dpkg?" is a duplicate of https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/104592/what-is-the-difference-between-apt-get-and-dpkg.

    Short answer: They do different jobs, and work together. Most of your interaction will be with apt.

  2. Your REAL question seems to be "How do I install libinput-gestures?"

    Answer: You follow the install instructions at https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

    Nobody has packaged libinput-gestures for Debian/Ubuntu, so you will find the dependencies in the Ubuntu repositories and installable by apt, but you WON'T find a package by that name.

    Neither apt nor dpkg install random github files.

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