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I use easystroke some years now. But today it's gone :(

In the CLI I got this message:

easystroke: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_serialization.so.1.71.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems easystroke is not under maintenance for some years now (ohh shocking!!!). So how can I fix this or anybody knows another nice Applikation on Linux for Mouse-Gestures?

uname -a :

Linux 5.4.85-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 21 21:38:53 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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  • It looks like a dependency issue. Some options. 1. Rebuild the package with new dependencies 2. Install the old version of that package etc.
    – Biswapriyo
    Commented Jan 2, 2021 at 13:47
  • Thanks for your answer, but I can't see any point where I could change the libboost dependency in the build-package file (aur.archlinux.org/packages/easystroke/#news)
    – suther
    Commented Jan 2, 2021 at 15:49

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I've found a way to install it. Even if the easystroke-git from AUR not work, it work to do it manually like described at the Page: https://github.com/berkeleybross/easy-gesture/blob/master/docs/build-instructions.md#releases

wget http://openartisthq.org/easystroke/patched-easystroke-master.tar.bz2
tar xvjf patched-easystroke-master.tar.bz2
cd patched-easystroke-master/easystroke
make
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  • Now that's how ArchLinux Et al. users solve their issue \o/
    – Biswapriyo
    Commented Jan 2, 2021 at 16:49
  • At least the results count ;). Thanks anyway.
    – suther
    Commented Jan 3, 2021 at 7:08
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easystroke: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_serialization.so.1.81.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Depending upon the version , download the specific libboost libs from https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/

Extract the 1.81.zip file (your version), run ./bootstrap.sh and a b2 file will be generated then run ./b2, just takes a few mins to on an average system to compile. The compiled files will be located on /stage/lib (shown in the b2 output)

then run on bash LD_LIBRARY_PATH="lib/" ./easystroke show

this lib/ should be replaced with the absolute path, Or just copy that lib/ from /stage to somewhere and run this command.

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