How To Install biometric-utils on Debian 10

Learn how to install biometric-utils on Debian 10 with this tutorial. biometric-utils is Biometric authentication utils

Introduction

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

What is biometric-utils

biometric-utils is:

Biometric authentication tools. This package provides the biometric-config-tool and biometric-device-discover tools:

  • biometric-auth-client: The command line client of the biometric identification framework service;
  • biometric-config-tool: add, remove, configure the biometric drivers;
  • biometric-device-discover: discover the devices supported by the biometric framework;

There are three methods to install biometric-utils 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-utils 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-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install biometric-utils

Install biometric-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install biometric-utils

Install biometric-utils 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-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install biometric-utils

How To Uninstall biometric-utils on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove biometric-utils

Uninstall biometric-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove biometric-utils

Remove biometric-utils Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge biometric-utils

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

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

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

Dependencies

biometric-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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