My touchpad is detected (scroll up/down works) but touch-click does not work. In my search I found a solution but it did not work with the following error:

$ synclient tapbutton1=1
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$ synclient tapbutton1=1
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

Any pointers? I went settings- mouse/touchpad but the check box to enable tap selection isn't there.
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