Leap Motion official deb package are designed to use on Ubuntu.
And it seems that it supports Debian and other Debian derivative distributions, but that is not true because installed init script which is generated from /etc/init.d/skeleton is pretty different and lacks functionality for Debian. (At least, 2.3.1 does not work)
This repository provides set of script and a bit modified version of well known patch from https://gist.github.com/jmwilson/8e6c579eac5fa7fa9f0d. Thanks, @jmwilson
Thus, you can easily create fixed version of deb package.
This repository supports v2 SDK only. It means that the following archive are supported.
- Leap_Motion_SDK_Linux_2.3.1.tgz
- Leap_Motion_Setup_Linux_2.3.1.tgz
Note that well-known hotfix is not applied yet.
Step 1. Download software from https://www.leapmotion.com/setup/desktop.
Step 2. Clone this repository into working directory.
git clone https://github.com/kenhys/debian-leapmotion.git
Step 3. Put Leap_Motion_Setup_Linux_2.3.1.tgz to cloned directory.
% cp PATH_TO_Leap_Motion_Setup_Linux_2.3.1.tgz debian-leapmotion/
Step 4. Just type make.
% cd debian-leapmotion
% make
rm -fr tmp
if [ ! -d Leap_Motion_Installer_Packages_release_public_linux ]; then \
tar xf Leap_Motion_Setup_Linux_2.3.1.tgz; \
fi
dpkg-deb -R Leap_Motion_Installer_Packages_release_public_linux/Leap-2.3.1+31549-x64.deb tmp
(cd tmp; patch -p0 < ../use-systemd-for-leapmotion.patch)
patching file DEBIAN/control
patching file DEBIAN/md5sums
patching file DEBIAN/postinst
patching file DEBIAN/postrm
patching file DEBIAN/prerm
cp -a overwrite/lib tmp/
dpkg-deb -b tmp Leap-2.3.1+31549-0.1-x64.deb
dpkg-deb: building package 'leap' in 'Leap-2.3.1+31549-0.1-x64.deb'.
Step 5. Just install it!
% sudo dpkg -i Leap-2.3.1+31549-0.1-x64.deb