How To Install fprintd-doc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd-doc
on Debian 12.
What is fprintd-doc
fprintd-doc is:
fprintd is a D-Bus daemon that offers libfprint functionality over the D-Bus interprocess communication bus. By adding this daemon layer above libfprint, various problems related to multiple applications simultaneously competing for fingerprint readers get solved.
This package contains the GTK-Doc API documentation of fprintd.
There are three methods to install fprintd-doc
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fprintd-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fprintd-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fprintd-doc
Install fprintd-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fprintd-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fprintd-doc
Install fprintd-doc 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 fprintd-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fprintd-doc
How To Uninstall fprintd-doc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the fprintd-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fprintd-doc
Uninstall fprintd-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fprintd-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fprintd-doc
Remove fprintd-doc Configurations and Data
To remove fprintd-doc
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fprintd-doc
Remove fprintd-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fprintd-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fprintd-doc
Dependencies
fprintd-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fprintd-doc
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.