How To Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
on Debian 11.
What is biometric-driver-community-multidevice
biometric-driver-community-multidevice is:
Community multi-device drivers for biometric authentication. Community multi-device drivers use libfprint for biometric identification.
This package supports following devices: upekts, uru4000, aes4000, aes2501, upektc, aes1610, fdu2000, vcom5s, upeksonly, vfs101, vfs301, aes2550, aes1660, aes2660, aes3500, upektc_img, etes603, vfs5011, vfs0050, elan.
There are three methods to install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
on Debian 11. 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-driver-community-multidevice 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-driver-community-multidevice
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
Install biometric-driver-community-multidevice 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-driver-community-multidevice
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
How To Uninstall biometric-driver-community-multidevice on Debian 11
To uninstall only the biometric-driver-community-multidevice
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice
Uninstall biometric-driver-community-multidevice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biometric-driver-community-multidevice
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biometric-driver-community-multidevice
Remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice Configurations and Data
To remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biometric-driver-community-multidevice
Remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biometric-driver-community-multidevice
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biometric-driver-community-multidevice
Dependencies
biometric-driver-community-multidevice have the following dependencies:
References
- biometric-driver-community-multidevice website
- biometric-driver-community-multidevice on packages.debian.org
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biometric-driver-community-multidevice
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.