Procedure for installing the touchpad tweak on Ubuntu 22.02-26.04 and Linux Mint 22:
Note: You will need utilize double tap (multi touch support is functioning without the fix) to click when following these directions.
1. For Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 and distributions derived from these like Linux Mint 22, Linux Mint 23, Trisquel 12 and 13 download this package and for Ubuntu 22.04 derived distributions including Linux Mint 21 and Trisquel 11 download this package.
2. Go to the activities menu in the top left corner and search for terminal, then click the terminal icon to open the app (or lower left for the mint menu).
3. Switch to the download directory (or wherever you have downloaded the package above if not the firefox default) and type the following command into the terminal and hit enter:
cd Downloads
4. Type in the following command to install the package and hit enter after it, it'll then prompt for your login password, enter it, and hit enter again:
For Ubuntu 24.04-26.04, Linux Mint 22, 23, and Trisquel 12:
sudo dpkg -i libinput-oem-touchpad-fix_1.0.3_24.04-26.04_all.deb
For Ubuntu 22.04, Linux Mint 21, and Trisquel 11:
sudo dpkg -i libinput-oem-touchpad-fix_1.0.4_22.04_all.deb
You will see something like the below:
[sudo] password for think:
Selecting previously unselected package libinput-oem-touchpad-fix.
(Reading database ... 147807 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libinput-oem-touchpad-fix_1.0.3_all.deb ...
Unpacking libinput-oem-touchpad-fix (1.0.3) ...
Setting up libinput-oem-touchpad-fix (1.0.3) ...
libinput-oem-touchpad-fix installed successfully.
Quirks file installed to: /usr/share/libinput/99-oem-ftcs1000.quirks
Please reboot for changes to take effect.
5. Reboot, for Linux Mint that would be lower left corner, click the Mint icon, click the power button, then click the restart button. For Ubuntu click the button in the top right corner and then the power button (24.04, for 22.04 click the Power Off/Log Out option) to shutdown the system. Then select the Restart... (24.04) or Power Off... (22.04) option. Click the Restart button (24.04) or Power Off button (22.04) to confirm you want to restart, or wait 60 seconds for the system to restart automatically.