How To Install biometric-auth on Debian 10

Learn how to install biometric-auth on Debian 10 with this tutorial. biometric-auth is Biometric Authentication Service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-auth on Debian 10.

What is biometric-auth

biometric-auth is:

The service layer of the biometric identification authentication framework. The service layer uses the DBus bus to provide the upper application with operation interfaces such as feature enroll, feature verify, feature identify, feature search, feature delete, etc. Meanwhile, it also provides notification of device status changes event and notification of USB device hotplug event.

This package contains a library for biometric authentication.

There are three methods to install biometric-auth on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install biometric-auth Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install biometric-auth using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install biometric-auth

Install biometric-auth Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install biometric-auth using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install biometric-auth

Install biometric-auth Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install biometric-auth using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biometric-auth

How To Uninstall biometric-auth on Debian 10

To uninstall only the biometric-auth package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove biometric-auth

Uninstall biometric-auth And Its Dependencies

To uninstall biometric-auth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biometric-auth

Remove biometric-auth Configurations and Data

To remove biometric-auth configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge biometric-auth

Remove biometric-auth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove biometric-auth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biometric-auth

Dependencies

biometric-auth have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-auth package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.